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Hazlitt called him "the poet not of nature but of art". Who does the statement refer to ?

In his 'Lectures on the English Poets' ('On Dryden and Pope'), William Hazlitt famously called Alexander Pope 'the poet, not of nature, but of art'.

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Hazlitt called him "the poet not of nature but of art". Who does the statement refer to ?

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In his 'Lectures on the English Poets' ('On Dryden and Pope'), William Hazlitt famously called Alexander Pope 'the poet, not of nature, but of art'.

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