Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
	Pope c. 1727
Born	21 Mey 1688; Lunnon, Ingland
Dee'd	30 Mey 1744 (aged 56); Twickenham, Middlesex, Ingland
Restin place	St Mary's Kirk, Twickenham, Middlesex, Ingland
Thrift	Poet, writer, translator
Notable warks	The Dunciad; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Criticism; his translation o Homer
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Alexander Pope (21 Mey 1688 – 30 Mey 1744) wis an Inglis poet. He is regairdit as ane o the greatest Inglis poets, an the foremaist poet o the early aichteent century.

Pope is best kent for his sateerical an discursive poetry, includin An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712) an The Dunciad (1728/1743^[1]), as weel as for his translation o Iliad an Odyssey bi Homer with William Broome an Elijah Fenton.^[2] Efter William Shakespeare, Pope is the seicont-maist quotit writer in the Inglis leid, as per The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.^[3] He is conseedert a master o the heroic couplet.^[2]

Pope was a smaa man o 4 fit 6 inches, caused bi tuberculosis.^[2]

The muins o Uranus are named efter chairacters frae Pope's poetry an frae William Shakespeare's plays.^[4]

See forby[eedit | eedit soorce]

Jonathan Swift

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ The Dunciad, britannica.com
↑ ^a ^b ^c John Everett Butt: Alexander Pope, britannica.com
↑ Dictionary of Quotations (1999)
↑ In Depth | Uranus Moons, NASA Solar System Exploration

[1] The Dunciad, britannica.com

[britannica-2] John Everett Butt: Alexander Pope, britannica.com

[3] Dictionary of Quotations (1999)

[4] In Depth | Uranus Moons, NASA Solar System Exploration

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