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English poet, born in Lombard Street, London, on the 21st of May 1688. His father, also Alexander Pope, a Roman Catholic, was a linen-draper who afterwards retired from business with a small fortune, and fixed his residence about 1700 at Binfield in Windsor Forest. Pope's education was desultory. His father's religion would have excluded him from the public schools, even had there been no other impediment to his being nt there. 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 Hy
de Park Corner, and finally from another priest at home. Between his twelfth and his venteenth years excessive application to study undermined his health, and he developed the personal deformity which was in so many ways to distort his view of life.
Pope would have despid so easy a metamorphosis as this at any period in his career, and the work of his coadjutors in the Odysy may be distinguished by this comparative cheapness of material. Broome's description of the clothes-washing by Nausicaa and her maidens in the sixth book may be compared with the original as a luminous specimen.
Pope's wit had won for him the friendship of many distinguished men, and his small fortune enabled him to meet them on a footing of independence. He paid long visits at many great hous, especially at Stanton Harcourt, the home of his friend Lord Chancellor Harcourt; at Oakley, the at of Lord Bathurst; and at Prior Park, Bath, where his host was Ralph Allen. With the last named he had a temporary disagreement owing to some slight shown to Martha Blount, but he was reconciled to him before his death.
greetingHe died on the 30th of May 1744, and he was buried in the parish church of Twickenham.
He left the income from his property to Martha Blount until her death, after which it was to go to his half-sister Magdalen Rackett and her children. His unpublished manuscripts were left at the discretion of Lord Bolingbroke, and his copyrights to Warburton.椭圆的面积公式
If we are to judge Pope, whether as a man or as a poet, with human fairness, and not merely by comparison with standards of abstract perfection, there are two features of his times that must be kept steadily in view -- the character of political strife in tho days and the political relations of men of letters. As long as the succession to the Crown was doubtful, and political failure might mean loss of property, banishment or death, politicians, playing for higher stakes, played more fiercely and unscrupulously than in modern days, and there was no controlling force of public opinion to keep them within the bounds of common honesty. Hence the age of Queen Anne is preeminently an age of intrigue. The government was almost as unttled as in the early days of personal monarchy, and there was this difference -- that it was policy rather than force upon which men depended for keeping their position. Secondly, men of letters were admitted to the inner circles of intrigue as they had never been before and as they have never been sinc
e. A generation later Walpole defied them, and paid the rougher instruments that he considered sufficient for his purpo in solid coin of the realm; but Queen Anne's statesmen, whether from difference of tastes or difference of policy, paid their principal literary champions with social privileges and honorable public appointments. Hence men of letters were directly infected by the low political morality of the unttled time. And the character of their poetry also suffered. The most prominent defects of the age -- the lack of high and sustained imagination, the genteel liking for "nature to advantage dresd", the incessant striving after wit -- were fostered, if not generated, by the social atmosphere.
Pope's own ruling passion was the love of fame, and he had no scruples where this was concerned. His vanity and his childish love of intrigue are en at their worst in his petty manoeuvres to cure the publication of his letters during his lifetime. The intricate proceedings were unravelled with great patience and ingenuity by Charles Wentworth Duke, when the fal picture of his relations with his contemporaries which Pope had impod on the public had been practically accepted for a century. Elizabeth Thomas, the
mistress of Henry Cromwell, had sold Pope's early letters to Henry Cromwell to the bookller Curll for ten guineas. The were published in Curll's Miscellanea in 1726 (dated 1727), and had considerable success. This surreptitious publication ems to have suggested to Pope the desirability of publishing his own correspondence, which he immediately began to collect from various friends on the plea of preventing a similar clandestine transaction. The publication by Wycherley's executors of a posthumous volume of the dramatist's pro and ver furnished Pope with an excu for the appearance of his own correspondence with Wycherley, which was accompanied by a ries of unnecessary deceptions. After manipulating his correspondence so as to place his own character in the best light, he deposited a copy in the library of Edward, cond earl of Oxford, and then he had it printed. The sheets were offered to Curll by a person calling himlf "P.T.", who profesd a desire to injure Pope, but was no other than Pope himlf. The copy was delivered to Curll in 1735 after long negotiations by an agent who called himlf "R. Smythe", with a few originals to vouch for their authenticity. "P.T." had drawn up an advertiment stating that the book was to contain answers from various pe
ers. Curll was summoned before the Hou of Lords for breach of privilege, but was acquitted, as the letters from peers were not in fact forthcoming. Difficulties then aro between Curll and "P.T.", and Pope induced a bookller named Cooper to publish a Narrative of the Method by which Mr. Pope's Private Letters were procured by Edmund Curli, Bookller (1735). The preliminaries cleared the way for a show of indignation against piratical publishers and a "genuine" edition of the Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope (1737, folio and 4to). Unhappily for Pope's reputation, his friend Caryll, who died before the publication, had taken a copy of Pope's letters before returning them. This letter-book came to light in the middle of the 19th century, and showed the freedom which Pope permitted himlf in editing. The correspondence with Lord Oxford, prerved at Longleat, afforded further evidence of his tortuous dealings. The methods he employed to cure his correspondence with Swift were even more discreditable. The proceedings can only be explained as the measures of a desperate man who maladies em to have engendered a passion for trickery. They are related in detail by Elwin in the introduction to volume I of Pope's Works. A man who is said to have "played the politician
webphoneabout cabbages and turnips", and who "hardly drank tea without a stratagem", was not likely to be straightforward in a matter in which his ruling passion was concerned. Against Pope's petulance and "general love of crecy and cunning" have to be t, in any fair judgment of his character, his exemplary conduct as a son, the affection with which he was regarded in his own circle of intimates, and many well-authenticated instances of genuine and continued kindliness to persons in distress.
Father: Alexander Pope (linen merchant, d. 1717)
Mother: (d. 1733)
Author of books:
Poetical Miscellanies (1709, poetry)
An Essay on Criticism (spectral1711, poetry)
The Rape of the Lock (1712–14, poetry)
The Dunciad (1728)
Peri Bathou, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728)
An Essay on Man (1733–34)
The New Dunciad (1742)
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Early life
Pope was born to Alexander Pope (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics.[3] Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which upheld the status of the established guardingChurch of England and banned Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, or holding public office on pain of perpetual imprisonment. Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698/99.[3] He then went to two Catholic schools in London.[3] Such schools, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas.[4]
