Alexander Pope
Pope c. 1727
Born	21 Mey 1688 ( 1688-05-21 ) Lunnon , Ingland
Dee'd	30 Mey 1744 (1744-05-30) (aged 56) Twickenham , Middlesex , Ingland
Restin place	St Mary's Kirk, Twickenham , Middlesex , Ingland
Thrift	Poet, writer, translator
Notable warks	The Dunciad The Rape of the Lock An Essay on Criticism his translation o Homer
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Alexander Pope (21 Mey 1688 ? 30 Mey 1744) wis an Inglis poet. He is regairdit as ane o the greatest Inglis poets, an the foremaist poet o the early aichteent century.

Pope is best kent for his sateerical an discursive poetry, includin An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712) an The Dunciad (1728/1743 ^[1] ), as weel as for his translation o Iliad an Odyssey bi Homer with William Broome an Elijah Fenton . ^[2] Efter William Shakespeare , Pope is the seicont-maist quotit writer in the Inglis leid, as per The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations . ^[3] He is conseedert a master o the heroic couplet . ^[2]

Pope was a smaa man o 4 fit 6 inches, caused bi tuberculosis . ^[2]

The muins o Uranus are named efter chairacters frae Pope's poetry an frae William Shakespeare's plays. ^[4]

See forby [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

• Jonathan Swift

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