ABSTRACT
W. H. Dilworth, extracts from The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq; With a View of his Writings … (1759). This hack biography may have been, as George Sherburn suggests, an attempt to benefit by the interest created by the publication of Warton's Essay three years earlier. Although Dilworth attempted to replace what he called the ‘farrago’ of Ayre's Memoirs (see No. 97), The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq is shapeless and carelessly strung together; into the bargain, it uses passages from the earlier book without bothering to acknowledge the source.
