Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope as Home Boy
Stephen Burt on the qualities shared by hip-hop and 18th century verse.
Poet Categorization
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Augustan
LIFE SPAN 1688–1744
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Biography
Alexander Pope was born in London to a Roman Catholic family. A childhood sickness left him with stunted height, a curved spine, and ill health for the rest of his life. Pope earned fame and great financial success as a poet, satirist, and translator. He is perhaps best remembered for his mastery of the heroic couplet, as in An Essay on Man and “The Rape of the Lock.”
