You know where you did despise
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Poet Alexander Pope 1688–1744
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Augustan
Subjects Nature, The Body, Friends & Enemies, Relationships, Men & Women
Poetic Terms Epigram
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.”
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SUBJECT Nature, The Body, Friends & Enemies, Relationships, Men & Women
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Augustan
Poetic Terms Epigram
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Poetry Off the Shelf: Alexander Pope as Home Boy
