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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, portrait by Thomas Hudson, c. 1739; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Alexander Pope announced his intention to translate Homer’s Iliad in October 1713. He subsequently published the first volume of his translation in 1715 and completed the work in six volumes by 1720.1