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1. (1688- 1744)

2.  Born on: May 21, 1688
 Born in : Lombard Street, London
 Parents : Alexander Pope Senior
Edith Turner
 Both his parents were Roman Catholic
 Before he was twelve he had obtained a smattering of Latin
and Greek from various masters, from a priest in
Hampshire, from a schoolmaster at Twyford near
Winchester, from Thomas Deane, who kept a school in
Marylebone and afterwards at Hyde Park Corner, and
finally from another priest at home.

3. 
- was an 18th-century English poet
 - best known for his satirical verse
 - He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
Dictionary of
Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson
 - famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
 - Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior and his wife Edith
Turner
 - Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford
School in about 1698 or 1699

4.  - age of 12, he suffered numerous health problems, such as Pott's
disease
 - May, 1709, Pope's Pastorals was published in the sixth part of Tonson's
Poetical Miscellanies and was followed by An Essay on Criticism,
published in May 1711
 - made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas
Parnell and John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical
Scriblerus Club
 - An Essay on Criticism was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711
 - At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which
it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry
 - final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities
and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the
ideal man.

5.  “Essay on Criticism” was first published anonymously on
15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career
and took about three years to finish it.
 “Rape of the Lock” Pope's most famous poem first
published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.
 “Essay on Man” is a philosophical poem, written in heroic
couplets and published between 1732 and 1734. Pope
intended this poem to be the centerpiece 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.[