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Alexander Pope born at Plough Court, Lombard Street on 21 May 1688.
Major works
1709: Pastorals
1711: An Essay on Criticism
1712: Messiah (from the Book of Isaiah, and later translated into Latin by Samuel Johnson)
1712: The Rape of the Lock (enlarged in 1714)
1713: Windsor Forest
1715: The Temple of Fame: A Vision
1715–1720: Translation of the Iliad
1717: Eloisa to Abelard
1717: Three Hours After Marriage, with others
1717: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
1723–1725: The Works of Shakespear, in Six Volumes
1725–1726: Translation of the Odyssey
1727: Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry
1728: The Dunciad
1733–1734: Essay on Man
1735: The Prologue to the Satires (see the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?)
Other works
1700: Ode on Solitude
1713: Ode for Musick
1717: The Court Ballad
1731: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington
1733: The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court
1736: Bounce to Fop
1737: The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace
1738: The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Editions
The Works of Alexander Pope vol 3, vol 3, v 9 of 10, v 6 of 8
He died 30
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