Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
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The "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" is a poem written by Alexander Pope and completed in the summer of 1734. Dr. John Arbuthnot was a physician and was known as a man of wit. He was a member of the Martinus Scriblerus Club, together with amongst others Pope, Swift and Gay. He was formerly the physician of Queen Anne.
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The poem is a conversation (although sometimes printed as a letter) between Pope and Arbuthnot, in which Pope gives his opinion about certain members of the 18th century society, for example Edmund Curll, who was a disreputable book seller.
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" is probably its most famous line.
Source: The Norton Anthology, English literature, volume 1
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