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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, portrait by Thomas Hudson, c. 1739; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
At the time of his death in 1744, Alexander Pope left two notable projects unfinished:
- Brutus: An epic poem that he had begun writing in blank verse.1
- A revision of his poems: Pope was in the process of preparing a new edition of his collected works, which remained incomplete when he died.1