Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet renowned for his satirical verse, mastery of the heroic couplet, and works such as "The Rape of the Lock" and his translation of Homer.

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instanceOf essayist
human
literary critic
poet
satirist
translator
activeYearsEnd 1744
activeYearsStart 1700
birthDate 1688-05-21
birthPlace City of London
London, England
surface form: London
burialPlace St Mary’s Church, Twickenham
causeOfDeath illness
countryOfCitizenship England
Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1744-05-30
deathPlace Twickenham
educatedAt self-educated
ethnicGroup English
father Alexander Pope self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alexander Pope Sr.
genre didactic poetry
mock-heroic poetry
poetry
satire
influenced English satirical poetry
Samuel Johnson
Voltaire
influencedBy Horace
John Dryden
Virgil
knownFor mastery of the heroic couplet
satirical verse
languageOfWorkOrName English
mother Edith Pope
movement Augustan literature
Neoclassicism
name Alexander Pope self-link
notableWork An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man
Eloisa to Abelard
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Imitations of Horace
Moral Essays
Pastorals
The Dunciad
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock
surface form: The Rape of the Lock (final five-canto version)

Windsor-Forest
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Binfield, Berkshire
Twickenham
style heroic couplet
translatedFromLanguage Ancient Greek
translatedWork Homer's Iliad
surface form: The Iliad

Homer's Odyssey
surface form: The Odyssey

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The Shepherd's Week influencedBy Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope name Alexander Pope self-link
Alexander Pope father Alexander Pope self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alexander Pope Sr.
A Fable for Critics influencedBy Alexander Pope
Duchess of Queensberry associatedWith Alexander Pope
subject surface form: Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
Samuel Johnson influencedBy Alexander Pope
Sir Samuel Garth contemporaryOf Alexander Pope
John Dryden influenced Alexander Pope
Stanton Harcourt hasNotableResident Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock author Alexander Pope
The Dunciad author Alexander Pope
Bernard Lintot associatedWith Alexander Pope
Bishop Francis Atterbury associatedWith Alexander Pope
subject surface form: Francis Atterbury
Matthew Prior contemporaryOf Alexander Pope
Lord Peterborough associatedWith Alexander Pope
subject surface form: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
Lord Oxford hasMember Alexander Pope
subject surface form: Scriblerus Club
Lord Oxford patronOf Alexander Pope
subject surface form: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Lord Bolingbroke influenced Alexander Pope
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse author Alexander Pope
Martinus Scriblerus createdBy Alexander Pope
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An Essay on Criticism author Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man author Alexander Pope
Windsor-Forest author Alexander Pope
Eloisa to Abelard author Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot author Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot includedIn Alexander Pope
this entity surface form: Alexander Pope's collected poems
Moral Essays author Alexander Pope
Imitations of Horace author Alexander Pope
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Pastorals author Alexander Pope
Pastorals partOf Alexander Pope
this entity surface form: Alexander Pope early works corpus
Binfield, Berkshire associatedWith Alexander Pope
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John Arbuthnot closeFriend Alexander Pope
John Arbuthnot influenced Alexander Pope