Pope

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Born- May 21, 1688 in London Died- May 30, 1744 in Twickenham. Twickenham today is now part of London. Occupation- Poet
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He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer The money made from his translation of Homer allowed Pope to move to a villa at Twickenham in 1719, where he created his now famous grotto and gardens. Pope decorated the grotto with alabaster, marbles, and ores such as mundic and crystals. In May, 1709, Pope's //Pastorals// was published in the sixth part of Tonson's //Poetical Miscellanies//. This brought Pope instant fame, and was followed by //An Essay on Criticism//, published in May 1711, which was equally well received__.__ __//An Essay on Criticism//__ The poem was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural, or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past. Pope comments on the classical authors who dealt with such standards, and the authority that he believed should be accredited to them. He discusses the laws to which a critic should adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that critics serve an important function in aiding poets with their works, as opposed to the practice of attacking them.

//__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. The satirical style is tempered, however, by a genuine and almost voyeuristic interest in the "beau-monde" (fashionable world) of 18th-century English society.

//__Dunciad and Moral Essays__// Though the //Dunciad// was first published anonymously in Dublin, its authorship was not in doubt. As well as Theobald, it pilloried a host of other "hacks", "scribblers" and "dunces". Mack called its publication "in many ways the greatest act of folly in Pope's life". In 1731, Pope published his "Epistle to Burlington, on the subject of architecture, the first of four poems which would later be grouped under the title Moral Essays(1731–35). In the epistle, Pope ridiculed the bad taste of the aristocrat "Timon". Pope's enemies claimed he was attacking the Duke of Chandos and his estate, Cannons. Though the charge was untrue, it did Pope a great deal of damage.

__//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. It consists of four epistles that are addressed to Lord Bolingbroke. Pope presents an idea or his view on the Universe; he says that no matter how imperfect, complex, inscrutable and disturbing the Universe appears to be, it functions in a rational fashion according to the natural laws. The poem is an affirmative poem of faith: life seems to be chaotic and confusing to man when he is in the center of it, but according to Pope it is really divinely ordered.

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An Essay On Man Audio = media type="file" key="An Essay On Man.m4a" width="300" height="50" = = = Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; = = The proper study of Mankind is Man. = = Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,(28) = = A being darkly wise, and rudely great: = = With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, = = With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, = = He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, = = In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; = = In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, = = Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; = = Alike in ignorance, his reason such, = = Whether he thinks too little, or too much: = = Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; = = Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; = = Created half to rise, and half to fall; = = Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; = = Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: = = The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! = =