Alexander Pope
by Godfrey Kneller
ca. 1721
British Museum 1888,0719.65
Pope is shown with a crown of laurels, befitting a great poet. In 1730, however, it would be the modestly talented playwright and actor Colley Cibber who would be appointed Poet Laureate.
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