The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, the foremost English poet of the eighteenth century, was born in London in 1688. He studied and wrote poetry from childhood, with his first pu...
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The English poet and satirist Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest poet and verse satirist of the Augustan period. No other poet in the history of English literature has handled the heroic coup...
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There was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed the "Augustan ...
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Alexander Pope's prose, even when most intimate, bears directly or indirectly upon his poetry. Accordingly, his essays range from short pieces such as the defense of his pastoral poetry to the extende...
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Alexander Pope's biographer Maynard Mack has estimated that the poet's personal library contained between 650 and 750 volumes. Such a collection would have been similar to those of other contemporary ...
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Biography EssayThere was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed ...
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In Pope's day, literary art was at the province of the upper class society and so he wrote this poem taking in mind the limited and specialized audience that would be reading and studying it. Allusion...
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Author and his times: Alexander Pope was born in London in 1688. Because he was a Roman Catholic living in a predominately Protestant society, he was largely excluded from the university system and...
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The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
