Alexander Pope

Created: 2022-12-30
Status: #soil
Last Edited: 2022-12-30
Topic: people #people literature

Who is Alexander Pope?

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, 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 is famous for such works as The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Criticism, An Essay on Man, and The Dunciad.

Famous quotations with sources

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."