"Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher. Cleverly presented as the trial of Pope v. Curll, with scores of documents as 'exhibits' and with posterity as jury, the narrative fully justifies the author's comment that 'Pope and Curll are both inherently funny.'"–Leo Damrosch, author The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age