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Pope

Mentioned as a poet or authority in passing.

minor

Also known as Pope

First appearance: III: Qui Judicatis Terram

Pope's tie to Unknown Narrator is one of the pressures that moves Unto This Last—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

Ruskin quotes Pope's lines about the mutual hatred of 'poor men of pelf' and the equal fate of the slave who digs and the slave who hides.
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With Unknown Narrator (social): The Pope is briefly invoked by the narrator as a moral authority on wealth and poverty. In III: Qui Judicatis Terram: Ruskin quotes Pope's lines about the mutual hatred of 'poor men of…

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