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Pope’s life and career weak and crippled from childhood; Little regular schooling and no university Self-taught with the help of dictionaries and grammar books Widely read and translated Latin, French, Italian and Greek poets Alexander Pope Later in Popes life, Sir Joshua Reynolds described him as about four feet six high; very humpbacked and deformed. Maynard Mack has written that Pope was afflicted with constant headaches, sometimes so severe that he could barely see the paper he wrote upon, frequent violent pain at bone and muscle joints...shortness of breath, increasing inabil