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(1688- 1744)
 Born on: May 21, 1688
 Born in : Lombard Street, London
 Parents : Alexander Pope Senior
            Edith Turner

 Both his parents were Roman Catholic
 Before he was twelve he had obtained a smattering of Latin
    and Greek from various masters, from a priest in
    Hampshire, from a schoolmaster at Twyford near
    Winchester, from Thomas Deane, who kept a school in
    Marylebone and afterwards at Hyde Park Corner, and
    finally from another priest at home.

    - was an 18th-century English poet

 - best known for his satirical verse

 - He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
    Dictionary of
    Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson

 - famous for his use of the heroic couplet.

 - Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior and his wife Edith
    Turner

 - Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford
    School in about 1698 or 1699
 - age of 12, he suffered numerous health problems, such as Pott's
  disease

 - May, 1709, Pope's Pastorals was published in the sixth part of Tonson's
  Poetical Miscellanies and was followed by An Essay on Criticism,
  published in May 1711

 - made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas
  Parnell and John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical
  Scriblerus Club

 - An Essay on Criticism was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711

 - At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which
  it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry

 - final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities
  and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the
  ideal man.
 “Essay on Criticism” was first published anonymously on
  15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career
  and took about three years to finish it.
 “Rape of the Lock” Pope's most famous poem first
  published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.
 “Essay on Man” is a philosophical poem, written in heroic
  couplets and published between 1732 and 1734. Pope
  intended this poem to be the centerpiece of a proposed
  system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form. It
  was a piece of work that Pope intended to make into a
  larger work; however, he did not live to complete it.[

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Alexander pope

  • 2.  Born on: May 21, 1688  Born in : Lombard Street, London  Parents : Alexander Pope Senior Edith Turner  Both his parents were Roman Catholic  Before he was twelve he had obtained a smattering of Latin and Greek from various masters, from a priest in Hampshire, from a schoolmaster at Twyford near Winchester, from Thomas Deane, who kept a school in Marylebone and afterwards at Hyde Park Corner, and finally from another priest at home.
  • 3. - was an 18th-century English poet  - best known for his satirical verse  - He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson  - famous for his use of the heroic couplet.  - Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior and his wife Edith Turner  - Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698 or 1699
  • 4.  - age of 12, he suffered numerous health problems, such as Pott's disease  - May, 1709, Pope's Pastorals was published in the sixth part of Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies and was followed by An Essay on Criticism, published in May 1711  - made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell and John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical Scriblerus Club  - An Essay on Criticism was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711  - At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry  - final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man.
  • 5.  “Essay on Criticism” was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it.  “Rape of the Lock” Pope's most famous poem first published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.  “Essay on Man” is a philosophical poem, written in heroic couplets and published between 1732 and 1734. Pope intended this poem to be the centerpiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form. It was a piece of work that Pope intended to make into a larger work; however, he did not live to complete it.[