ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -THE POET AS ROMANTIC. In his own day, Pope was famous and honored for his epigrams, his satires, and his translations of Homer. But his best-loved poem-perhaps the best-loved poem of the whole Enlightenment era-was quite untypical of him.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alexander Pope, (born May 21, 1688, London, England-died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London), poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34).

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Pope was born in London on May 21, 1688, disadvantaged from the start by being born into a Roman Catholic family (at a time when Catholics were severely restricted in their liberty and property by the English government).

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander Pope (21 May 1688-30 May 1744) was an English poet, considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet. He is known for his writing style and satirical works, such as The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock and An Essay on Criticism.