AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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He lived in Italy until the age of 27
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Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
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He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
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He just wasn’t bright enough
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pope’s education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, a series of English penal laws that upheld the status of the established Church of England, banning Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, and holding public office on penalty of perpetual imprisonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pope was born on May 21, 1688 to a wealthy Catholic linen merchant, Alexander Pope, and his second wife, Edith Turner. In the same year, the Protestant William of Orange took the English throne.
Detailed explanation-3: -In childhood Alexander Pope contracted what seems to have been tuberculosis of the spine-Pott’s disease. He died at the age of 56, of what apparently was congestive failure.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Religion played an important role in Pope’s personal life from its very outset: he came of a Roman Catholic family, and he remained a Catholic, though not a particularly fervent one, when it was still decidedly disadvantageous and even dangerous to be so.