Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope Quotes
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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| Birth: | 21st May, 1688 |
| Death: | 30th May, 1744 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. An Essay on Criticism was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it. Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.
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