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Alexander Pope

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Born May 21, 1688
Died May 30, 1744 (56 years old)
London, Kingdom of England
Also known as: Alexander, Pope, Alexander POPE
75 books
3.8 (31)
163 readers

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An English poet, best known for his satire and translations.

Books

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Dunciad

5.0 (2)
3

Griffith 552;Head- and tail-pieces; initials; Anonymous. By Alexander Pope; M.E. Barry Rare Book Collection. Special Collections, Alumnae Library, Elms College; Description based on print version record.

The Rape of the Lock

3.4 (9)
51

A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.

The English Tongue

3.0 (2)
22

"Reprinted from the latest London edition"

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition

James Joyce, Tony Blair, Bei Dao, Confucius, Saki, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Addison, Doris Lessing, Stephen Spender, Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Larkin, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A. E. Housman, Arthur Rimbaud, Sydney Smith, Tu Fu, Nadine Gordimer, Edmund Spenser, Sophocles, Rudyard Kipling, Brooke, Rupert, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Anita Desai, Elizabeth Bowen, John Keats, Walter Raleigh, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ovid, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur C. Clarke, W. H. Auden, Lord Byron, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, Όμηρος, Edgar Allan Poe, Suckling, John Sir, Joanna Baillie, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Trevor, Emily Brontë, Alan Sillitoe, Richard Lovelace, John Donne, George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Derek Walcott, Sappho, Alexander Pope, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Gray, Jonathan Swift, Muriel Spark, Jane Austen, Siegfried Sassoon, Pablo Neruda, Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Anna Quindlen, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Malory, Thomas More, Ted Hughes, Anna Akhmatova, Eavan Boland, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Heinrich Heine, Francis Jeffrey, Buson Yosa, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Yehuda Amichai, Daniel Defoe, Seamus Heaney, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, William Blake, T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Francesco Petrarca, Matthew Arnold, Mary Shelley, John Milton, V. S. Naipaul, Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson
3.0 (3)
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The Discovery

5.0 (1)
2

"Kaz, Adriana, Star, and Dante are diving to study sea creatures. But they find something much more exciting than fish--sunken treasure! Too bad there are adults who will stop at nothing to get the treasure first. These four young adventurers will have to act fast, fight hard and always beware of sharks."