Alexander Pope Biography
He was born in London in 1688.
He died at Twickenham in 1744.He was a poet, critic, translator and essayist.
He is well known as a satirist.
He belonged to a Roman Catholic family.
He was the only child of his parents.
His father's name was Alexander Pope, Sr.
Edith Turner was his mother.
His father was a linen-draper.
He enjoyed contacts with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
He was a bookworm.
As a Roman catholic, he was not allowed to attend university.
He was self educated.
He was the master of heroic couplet.
Jonathan Swift and John Arbuthnot were his contemporaries.
He is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
He joined a literary society at London in 1706.
In 1711 Essay on Criticism was published.
He wrote Rape of the Lock in 1712.
He translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
In 1728, Pope started writing The Dunciad.
Alexander Pope Works:
Pastorals 1709
Essay on Criticism 1711
Rape of the Lock 1712
Windsor-Forest 1713
Translation of the "Odyssey," 1726
The Dunciad 1728
Moral Essays 1731
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