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The page of Pope, Alexander, English biography

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Pope, Alexander
(1688–1744)
 

Biography

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.[1] Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

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