CHAPTER III.
POPE'S HOMER.
Pope's uneasy relations with the wits at Button's were no obstacle to his success elsewhere.

Swift, now at the height of his power, was pleased by his _Windsor Forest_, recommended it to Stella, and soon made the author's acquaintance.

The first letter in their long correspondence is a laboured but fairly successful piece of pleasantry from Pope, upon Swift's having offered twenty guineas to the young Papist to change his religion.

It is dated December 8, 1713.

In the preceding month Bishop Kennet saw Swift in all his glory, and wrote an often quoted description of the scene.