Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope (c.1727), an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism
Born May 21, 1688(1688-05-21)
London
Died May 30, 1744 (aged 56)
Occupation Poet
Alexander Pope (May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer.
He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
Works
(1709) Pastorals
(1711) An Essay on Criticism
(1713) Windsor Forest
(1715-1720) Translation of the Iliad
(1717) Eloisa to Abelard
(1717) Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
(1725-1726) Translation of the Odyssey
(1728) The Dunciad
(1734) Essay on Man
(1735) The Prologue to the Satires (see the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Pope (c.1727), an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism
Born May 21, 1688(1688-05-21)
London
Died May 30, 1744 (aged 56)
Occupation Poet
Alexander Pope (May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer.
He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
Works
(1709) Pastorals
(1711) An Essay on Criticism
(1713) Windsor Forest
(1715-1720) Translation of the Iliad
(1717) Eloisa to Abelard
(1717) Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
(1725-1726) Translation of the Odyssey
(1728) The Dunciad
(1734) Essay on Man
(1735) The Prologue to the Satires (see the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope