Alexander Pope

(Born: May 21, 1688 - Died: May 30, 1744)

English poet.

“As examples of entire poems of the purest ideality, we would cite the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus, the Inferno of Dante, Cervantes’ Destruction of Numantia, the Comus of Milton, Pope’s Rape of the Lock, Burns’ Tam O’Shanter, the Auncient Mariner, the Christabel, and the Kubla Khan of Coleridge, and most especially the Sensitive Plant of Shelley, and the Nightingale of Keats.” (Review of The Culprit Fay and Alnwick Castle, from Southern Literary Messenger, April 1836) A number of brief but consistently favorable comments about Pope’s poetry appear in Poe’s essay “Notes Upon English Verse.”