Alexander Pope (Q76445)
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21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744, British poet
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Alexander Pope |
21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744, British poet |
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21 May 1688Julian
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30 May 1744Julian
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Education: Aunt Elizabeth Turner taught him to read and write; Taught by John Taverner (alias Banister and John Davies), a family priest; Catholic school at Twyford, Hampshire (~1696/1697); John Bromley's Catholic school, perhaps in Bloomsbury; Thomas Deane's Catholic school, in Marylebone (1696/1697-1700); Self-education: debarred from university
Coteries: Scriblerus Club: Jonathan Swift, Dr John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, John Gay, Robert Harley
Periodicals etc.: Poetical Miscellanies, The Sixth Part, ed. Jacob Tonson (The Pastorals; January and May; The Episode of Sarpedon), 1709; Ovid's Epistles...By Several Hands (Sappho and Phaon), 1712; The Spectator (Messiah; Imitation of Waller, On a Fan), 1712; Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands (The Rape of the Lock, in 2 cantos; Vertumnus and Pomona; The First Book of Statius his Thebais; Imitation of the Earl of Rochester, On Silence; Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; Verses to be prefix'd before Lintot's New Miscellany), 1712; The Guardian (Prologue to Addison's Cato; The Gardens of Alcinous; “A Receipt to make an Epick Poem”; no. 40, about Ambrose Philips' pastorals), 1713; Steele's Poetical Miscellanies...By the Best Hands (The Wife of Bath her Prologue; The Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca, Odys. Bk. XIII; Prologue, Design'd for Mr. Durfy's Last Play), 1713; The Art of Painting; By C. A. DuFresnoy (Epistle to Mr. Jervas), 1716; Poems on Several Occasions (Ode on Solitude; Imitations of Waller; Imitations of Cowley; other minor poems and juvenilia), 1717; The Works of Addison, Vol. I (To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by his Dialogue on Medals), 1721; Poems by Thomas Parnell, published by Mr. Pope (Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford), 1722; The Pope-Swift Miscellanies, Vols. I, II, 1727 (includes many of Pope's prose works, including The Art of Sinking in Poetry)
Periodicals etc. continued: Miscellanies, The Last Vollume, 1728; Miscellaneous Poems, By Several Hands. D. Lewis (Epigrams; Epitaphs), 1730; Miscellanies, The Third Volume, 1732; GM (Epitaph on Mr. Gay) , 1733; The Publick Register: or, The Weekly Magazine (Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit), 1741; The Grub-street Journal (no. 46), 1730"
Overall: Pope prided himself on his freedom from patronage and his financial independence, secured primarily by the profit from his translation of Homer's Iliad. In 1976 David Foxon estimated that the value of Pope's Homer to the poet, translated into the financial values of that year, was about ?200,000. Throughout his career, Pope satirized the poverty of "Grub-street" writers who wrote for patronage and profit. Pope thus put forth an image of himself as a gentleman-poet free from the pressures of the literary marketplace.
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