The most extraordinary feature of the great poet Alexander Pope’s Twickenham home has been restored, and you’ll be able to take a look for yourself. James Fisher reports.
‘I have put the last hand to my works… happily finishing the subterraneous Way and Grotto: I then found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual Rill, that echoes thru’ the Cavern day and night.’ So wrote Alexander Pope — the famed 18th century poet — of his underground…
