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Coleborne, Bryan. "Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," Teaching Satire: Dryden to Pope, ed. H. J. Real (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1992), pp. 167-190.
Similar to, but vastly different from its famed predecessor, Mac Flecknoe, Pope's most polished satire, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, carries a heavy weight of allusion, making it even more difficult to teach adequately than Dryden's satiric masterpiece. Arbuthnot lacks the historical parallels in Mac Flecknoe (such as an...