Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer, and he is also famous for his use of the heroic couplet. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare. Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics.

Poetry

Essay on Criticism: An Essay on Criticism was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it.

Rape of the Lock: Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714. A mock-epic, it satirises a high-society quarrel between Arabella Fermor (the "Belinda" of the poem) and Lord Petre, who had snipped a lock of hair from her head without her permission. 

Essay on Man: The Essay on Man is a philosophical poem, written in heroic couplets and published between 1732 and 1734. Pope intended this poem to be the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form. It was a piece of work that Pope intended to make into a larger work; however, he did not live to complete it.

 

Major works

1. 1709: Pastorals
2. 1711: An Essay on Criticism
3. 1712: Messiah (from the Book of Isaiah, and later translated into Latin by Samuel Johnson)
4. 1712: The Rape of the Lock (enlarged in 1714)
5. 1713: Windsor Forest
6. 1715: The Temple of Fame: A Vision
7. 1715–1720: Translation of the Iliad
8. 1717: Eloisa to Abelard
9. 1717: Three Hours After Marriage, with others
10. 1717: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
11. 1723–1725: The Works of Shakespear, in Six Volumes
12. 1725–1726: Translation of the Odyssey
13. 1727: Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry

Other works

1. 1700: Ode on Solitude
2. 1713: Ode for Musick
3. 1717: The Court Ballad
4. 1731: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington
5. 1733: The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court
6. 1736: Bounce to Fop
7. 1737: The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace
8. 1738: The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace                           

He died in his villa surrounded by friends on 30 May 1744, about eleven o'clock at night. On the previous day, 29 May 1744, Pope had called for a priest and received the Last Rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He was buried in the nave of St Mary's Church, Twickenham.

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