Author
Alexander Pope
English poet (1688–1744)
Their life
Alexander Pope lived from 21 May 1688 to 30 May 1744, using the Old Style dating given in his record. He was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era, and he is regarded as one of the leading English poets of the early eighteenth century. He is counted among the writers of Augustan literature.
Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poems. These include An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712 to 1717), and The Dunciad (1728 to 1743). He also produced translations of Homer, which form a major part of his work.
Many of Pope's lines are often cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and some have become part of everyday speech. Two examples given are the phrase about praising someone so faintly that it amounts to criticism, and the line stating that making mistakes is human while forgiving them is divine.
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Quotations
He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
