Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.

Natural to the Roman Catholic family in 1688, Pope was educated mostly at home, around a portion due to laws in force at a instance upholding a status of the established Church of England. From either early childhood he suffered many unhealthiness, including Pott's disease (a form of tuberculosis affecting the spine) which deformed his body and stunted his growth, no doubt helping to end his life at the relatively young age of 56 in 1744. He never grew beyond I.37m (4ft 6in).

Although he got been writing poetry since a age of Xii, his 1st major contribution to the literary gloexist as is considered to be An Essay on Criticism, which was published in 1711 when he was 23. This was followed by The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714), his most popular verse form; Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717); and many shorter works, of which maybe a right come a epistles to Martha Blount. From either 1715 to 1720, he worked on the translation of Homer's Iliad. Bucked up per super favorable reception of this translation, Pope translated a Odyssey (1725-1726) with William Broome and Elijah Fenton. A commercial profits of his translations processed Pope a number one English poet world health organization may survive off a sales of his act alone, "indebted to no prince or peer alive," when he put it. Therein period of time Pope besides brought out an edition of Shakespeare, which silently "regularised" his metre & rewrote his verse around many pages. Lewis Theobald and other scholars attacked Pope's edition, getting Pope's wrath & inspiring a 1st version of his irony The Dunciad (1728), the number one of the lesson & satirical verse form of his endure cycle. His more major verse form of this time were Moral Essays (1731-1735), Imitations of Horace (1733-1738), the Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735), the Essay on Man (1734), and an expanded edition of the Dunciad (1742), in which Colley Cibber took Theobald's place as a 'hero'. Pope directly addressed a major religious, political & rational problems of his instance. He developed a heroic couplet beyond the accomplishment of any last poet, & major poets when him utilized it to a lesser degree people prior to, when he experienced decreased its utility for the babies.

Pope besides wrote a celebrated epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton:

''"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light."

"It did not last: the devil, shouting 'Ho.
Let Einstein be' restored the status quo."''

Pope experienced the friend & ally within Jonathan Swift. Within astir 1713, he formed a Scriblerus Club with Swift & more friends including John Gay. Pope's works were another time considered a share of the mental piece of furniture of the easily-knowledgeable human. Of these edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations includes there is no less than 212 quotations from either Pope. A select few, familiar possibly to people world health organization might not understand their source, come "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (from either a Essay in Criticism); "To err is human, to forgive, divine" (ibid.); "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (ibid); & "The proper study of mankind is man" (Essay in Human). Pope's reputation declined precipitously in the 19th century, however has recovered substantially since so. Occasionally verse form, like A Rape of the Lock, a moral essays, a imitations of Horace, & many epistles, come regarded when extremely today when it use at times ever been, though others, like a Essay in Human, develop non endured super easily, & a merits of 2 of a first works, the Dunciad & a translation of the Iliad, come however disputed. A 19th century considered his diction unreal, his versification as well regular, & his irony insufficiently humane. A third charge has been disputed by various 20th century critics including William Empson, and a number 1 doesn't use the least bit to his better act. That Pope was forced per demands of "acceptable" diction & prosody is undeniable, however Pope's lesson shows that nifty poetry can be written by having these constraints.

Works
(1709) Pastorals (1711) An Essay on Criticism (1712) The Rape of the Lock (1713) Windsor Forest (1717) Eloisa to Abelard (1717) Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (Great gross) The Dunciad (1734) Essay on Man (1735) The Prologue to the Satires (see a Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot)

Trivia
His father was non great deal in favour his writing verse form as a baby. It used to exist as that he was caught & beaten higher by his father after he was discovered to be writing the verse form. He immediately begged his father's forgiveness locution: "Papa Papa pity take! No more shall I verses make!"