ABSTRACT
Lord George Lyttelton, extract from ‘Dialogue XIV. Boileau-Pope’, Dialogues of the Dead (1760), pp. 112–17. Baron Lyttelton (1709–73), who had been a good friend of Pope, wrote this piece in middle age. The tradition of the Dialogue of the Dead was a commonplace one: for Lyttelton's effusive verse letter written as a young man to Pope, see No. 62.
