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SOURCE: Hesse, Alfred W. ‘Pope's Role in Tonson's “Loss of Rowe.”’ Notes and Queries n.s. 24, no. 3 (June 1977): 234-35.
In the following essay, Hesse explains a reference in Pope's “A Farewell to London” as having to do with Tonson losing one of his authors to a rival publisher.
Lintot, farewell! thy Bard must go; Farewell, unhappy Tonson! Heaven gives thee for thy Loss of Rowe, Lean Philips, and fat Johnson.
The “Loss of Rowe” in these lines from Pope's “A Farewell to LONDON. In the Year 1715.” is inadequately explained in the Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (vi, 131)—“i.e. when King George I made him one of the land surveyors of the port of London”, attributed to a note from Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., i, 1776. But this statement is nonsense, since the poem was written in May or June 1715 and it...
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