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Thomas Tickell

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Thomas Tickell (born 1686, Bridekirk, near Carlisle, Eng.—died April 23, 1740, Bath, Somerset) was an English verse writer and man of letters who is, however, best remembered for the quarrel involving his translation of the first book of Homer’s Iliad in 1715, which appeared contemporaneously with that of Alexander Pope. Joseph Addison’s reported description of Tickell’s version as “the best that ever was in any language” aroused the anger of Pope, who assumed that Addison...

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