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So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft
Age: 46 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 20
Died: 1937
Died: March 15
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Rhode Island
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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Richard Raleigh
Edgar Softly
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