Alexander Pope

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This paper looks at the life of Alexander Pope who was a leading 18th century English poet-satirist. It explains that Pope had a wide range of disabilities but a brilliant mind. The paper discusses some of Rope's poems and how they reflected the poet's mindset.

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"In 1713, he published "Windsor Forest", which brought him into a closer friendship with Jonathan Swift. Then, a year later, in 1714, he published the "final" version of "The Rape of the Lock". This poem had its origins in an actual, if trivial, incident. In 1711, the twenty-one year old Robert, Lord Petre, had surreptitiously snipped a lock of hair from the head of the beautiful Arabella Fermor. He had been courting her. She got very angry. And the two families began a feud. A writer named John Caryll who was a friend of both families suggested to Pope that he work on a sort of humorous poem about the situation. It was supposed to prove to the two families that all this was blown out of proportion. The poem served it purpose, and then again it did not."

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