This presentation is about Writer of Alexander Pope.

1. Name : Anjali Rathod
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Subject : A detailed note on Alexander Pope
Paper code : 22393
Submitted by : S B Gardi Department of English , MK Bhavnagar
Univercity

2. Alexander Pope
Introduction
Born: May 21, 1688 , London, England
Died: May 30, 1744 ,Twickenham,near London
Occupation : An English Poet, Satirist of the Augusten Era
He was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his
satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for
his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently
quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after
Shakespeare and Tennyson .

3. His Life
❖ Alexander pope was born of olderely parents in london. They were Roman
Catholics. His mother was Edith, daughter of William Turner of York. His
father was a Linendraper who made a fortune.
❖ Partly because an unfortunate prejudice against catholics in the public
schools, partly because of his own weakness and deformity.
❖ Very Early he began to write poetry, and records the fact with his usual
vanity :
As yet a child , nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisped in numbers , for the numbers came.

4. His Literary Creation
❏ Pope’s workinto three groups, corresponding to the early , middle and later
period of his life.
❏ In the first he wrote his “PASTORALS” , “WINDSTOR FOREST”, “MESSIAH”,
“ESSAY ON CRITICISM” , “ELOISE TO ABELARD”, and “ THE RAPE OF LOCK”.
❏ In the second, his translations of Homer .
❏ In the third the DUNCIED and the EPISTELS,
❏ The latter containing the famous “ESSAY ON MAN” and the “EPISTLE TO DR.
ARBUTHNOT”, which is in truth his “APOLOGIA”.

5. Essay on criticism -1711
❏ A didactic poem in heroic couplets by Alexander pope. It provides a set of
flexible rules for the human conduct of criticism , and discusses the
ancient and modern writers of the subject.
The Pastorals
❏ This poem begins in “SPRING” with what seems the most convenient
assumption for writing pastoral poetry. In “SUMMER” the poet adopts
personification as a dominant trope. In the third poem “AUTUMN”
metaphor replaces personification as the major technique.by the Final
“WINTER” nature is absolutely subservient to the poet.

6. The Rape of Lock
❏ The Rape of lock is a masterpiece of its kind, and comes nearer to being a
“CREATION”. Lord Pedre , snipped a lock of hair from the abundant curls
of a pretty maid of honor named Arabella Fermor [Bellinda].
❏ The young lady resented it , and the two families were plunged into a
quarrel which was the talk to London.
❏ The poem modeled two foreign satires : Boileau’s Le Lutrin , satire on the
French clergy. He raised a huge quarrel over the location of a lectern and
La Sacchia Rapita , a famous Italian satire on the pretty causes of the
endless Italian wars.
❏ Pope . however , went far ahead of his masters in style and in delicacy of
handling a Mock-Heroic theme.

7. References
http://agdc.ac.in/pdf/resource/alexander_pope.pdf
MacNalty AS. Alexander Pope: Poet and Cripple, 1688–1744. Proceedings of
the Royal Society of Medicine. 1958;51(8):601-604.
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Long, William J. English Literature. ENLARGED EDITION ed., Delhi, Aitbs, 2018.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192806871.001.0001/acr
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/449908
Long, William J. English Literature. ENLARGED EDITION ed., Delhi, Aitbs, 2018.

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