Alexander Pope
1688 CE–1744 CE · Poet · London (Lombard Street)
Alexander Pope was an English poet, satirist, and translator, the leading verse craftsman of early eighteenth-century England. Largely self-taught after Catholic penal laws barred him from formal schooling, and left frail by a childhood illness that curved his spine, he became a master of the heroic couplet. His works include the mock-epic "The Rape of the Lock," the critical poem "An Essay on Criticism," the philosophical "An Essay on Man," and the satirical "The Dunciad." His verse translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" brought him financial independence. From 1719 he lived at a villa in Twickenham, famous for its landscaped garden and grotto, where he died in 1744.
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