ABSTRACT
Harte {I 709-74) , a friend of Pope, was successively travelling tutor, Oxford don, and Canon of Windsor. He wrote on historical and moral topics, and his later verse was chiefly religious. He compared Donne unfavourably with Pope as a mock-heroic poet in a long poem in couplets published when he was twentyone, An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the DUllciad, 1730, lines 63-70. Presumably he had Donne's Metempsychosis in mind.
