Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

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Alexander Pope born May 21, 1688, London, Eng. died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London English poet and satirist. A precocious boy precluded from formal education by his Roman Catholicism, Pope was mainly self-educated. A deformity of the spine and other health problems limited his growth and physical activities, leading him to devote himself to reading and writing. His first major work was An Essay on Criticism (1711), a poem on the art of writing that contains several brilliant epigra.. Continue..

Some of Alexander Pope Poems

Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness

Ode on Solitude

Solitude

Sound And Sense

Couplets on Wit

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	A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

- Alexander Pope

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