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About Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist
Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era. He is considered one of the leading English poets of the early 18th century. A major figure in Augustan literature, Pope is best known for satirical and reflective verse. His work includes An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad, along with his translations of Homer.
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- “A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”Alexander Pope
- “The proper study of Mankind is Man.”Alexander Pope
- “To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”Alexander Pope
- “Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;Thus unlamented let me die;Steal from the world, and not a stoneTell where…”Alexander Pope
Reflections: more sayings
- “Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't ha…”Peter Dinklage
- “I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.”Ehud Barak
- “The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.”Felix Adler
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Books by Alexander Pope
An essay on man
2005
The Rape of the Lock
1966
Dunciad
2004
Poems
1966