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Edmund Curll

English bookseller
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1675, England
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Dec. 11, 1747, London (aged 72)
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Edmund Curll (born 1675, England—died Dec. 11, 1747, London) was an English bookseller remembered for his long quarrel with the poet Alexander Pope. Curll became a bookseller in 1705 and was set up in his own business by 1708. In 1716 he published Court Poems and suggested that Pope was one of the contributors. Pope, in an effort to suppress this publication, met Curll at a tavern, played a practical joke on him, and wrote the comic A Full and True Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison on the Body of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller (1716). Pope ...(100 of 218 words)

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