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  2. Alexander Pope - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

  3. An Essay on Criticism - Wikipedia

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    Frontispiece. An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".

  4. The Dunciad - Wikipedia

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    The first version – the "three-book" Dunciad – was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum, was published anonymously in 1729.The New Dunciad, in a new fourth book conceived as a sequel to the previous three, appeared in 1742, and The Dunciad in Four Books, a revised version of the original three books and a slightly revised version of the fourth book with ...

  5. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Pope (b. May 21, 1688) was a satirist known for his Horatian satirist style and translation of the Iliad. Famous throughout and after the long 18th century, Pope died in 1744. [104] Pope, in his The Rape of the Lock, is delicately chiding society in a sly but polished voice by holding up a mirror to the follies and vanities of the ...

  6. Characters and Observations - Wikipedia

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    It was almost certainly owned by Alexander Pope, and is possibly his work. [1] The title page of the manuscript had "A Pope. Twikeam." written on it. The work consists of aphorisms, wisecracks, and longer-form descriptions of general subjects and personality types. The contents are arranged by subject, as follows: Benefits; Gratitude; Praise ...

  7. How capitalism surfs the rising seas of human folly

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    The human race is ingenious at adapting to the climate it has transformed, yet politics and capitalism mitigate against changing direction. How capitalism surfs the rising seas of human folly Skip ...

  8. Moral Essays - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Pope's Moral Essays were published between 1731 and 1735. Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons ) is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope , published between 1731 and 1735.

  9. Colley Cibber - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Pope made Cibber the ultimate hero of Dunciad. In the first version of his landmark literary satire Dunciad (1728), Pope referred contemptuously to Cibber's "past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new" plays, produced with "less human genius than God gives an ape". Cibber's elevation to laureateship in 1730 further inflamed Pope against him.