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Alexander Pope
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![]() Alexander Pope (c.1727), an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism and The Dunciad
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Occupation | Poet |
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688– 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
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Pope's villa at Twickenham, showing the grotto; from a watercolour produced soon after his death
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Mawson Arms, Chiswick Lane, with blue plaque to Pope
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Alexander Pope, painting attributed to English painter Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The death of Alexander Pope from Museus, a threnody by William Mason. Diana holds the dying Pope, and John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and Geoffrey Chaucer prepare to welcome him to heaven.