Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an English poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, he is the second-most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,[2] some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. "damning with faint praise" or "to err is human; to forgive, divine").
Pope’s father, a wholesale linen merchant, retired from business in the year of his son’s birth and in 1700 went to live at Binfield in Windsor Forest. The Popes were Roman Catholics, and at Binfield they came to know several neighbouring Catholic families who were to play an important part in the poet’s life. Pope’s religion procured him some lifelong friends, notably the wealthy squire John Caryll (who persuaded him to write The Rape of the Lock, on an incident involving Caryll’s relatives) and Martha Blount, to whom Pope addressed some of the most memorable of his poems and to whom he bequeathed most of his property.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
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Pope’s father, a wholesale linen merchant, retired from business in the year of his son’s birth and in 1700 went to live at Binfield in Windsor Forest. The Popes were Roman Catholics, and at Binfield they came to know several neighbouring Catholic families who were to play an important part in the poet’s life. Pope’s religion procured him some lifelong friends, notably the wealthy squire John Caryll (who persuaded him to write The Rape of the Lock, on an incident involving Caryll’s relatives) and Martha Blount, to whom Pope addressed some of the most memorable of his poems and to whom he bequeathed most of his property.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
Credits :
All of the books under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License [www.gutenberg.org]. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
Readium is available under BSD 3-Clause license
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