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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, as well as for his translation of Homer.

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On a certain Lady at Court 407 ViewsRate it
Lines Written in Windsor Forest
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Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham
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Celia
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Verses Left by Mr. Pope
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The Three Gentle Shepherds 298 ViewsRate it
Translation of a Prayer of Brutus 272 ViewsRate it
An Essay on Man: Epistle II
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Essay on Man
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An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1
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The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
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An Essay on Criticism
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From an Essay on Man
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Ode on Solitude
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The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
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Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness 143 ViewsRate it
Sound and Sense 137 ViewsRate it
Eloisa to Abelard
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Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation]
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Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
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On Mr. Gay
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EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women )
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Solitude: An Ode
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On a Fan of the Author's Design
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Sappho to Phaon (Ovid Heroid XV)
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The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
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Universal Prayer
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Windsor Forest
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In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia
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The Dying Christian to His Soul
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The Fable of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses
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To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday
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Chorus of Athenians
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Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea
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Untitled 102 ViewsRate it
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
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Prayer of St. Francis Xavier
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Argus
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Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle,
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The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue
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In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden
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The Dunciad: Book II.
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Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold 91 ViewsRate it
Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid's Metamorphosis
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Weeping
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Song, by a Person of Quality
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Summer
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Winter - The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne
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Chorus of Youths and Virgins
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The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney
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In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence
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To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession 82 ViewsRate it
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
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In Imitation of Chaucer
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The Challenge: A Court Ballad
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The Temple of Fame
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The Rape of the Lock
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Couplets on Wit
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Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Phyrne 62 ViewsRate it
The Riddle of the World
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Solitude
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Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Inscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies.
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On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. 55 ViewsRate it
On His Grotto at Twickenham
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On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper
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Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book
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The Dunciad: Book I.
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Lines on Curll 49 ViewsRate it
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt)
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To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-Day
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Farewell to London
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The Dunciad: Book IV
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In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson
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Macer : A Character
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The Basset-Table : An Eclogue
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The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
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You Know Where You Did Despise 37 ViewsRate it
Spring - The First Pastoral ; or Damon
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To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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On Certain Ladies 23 ViewsRate it
Answer To The Following Question Of Mrs Howe.
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A Fragment. 4 ViewsRate it
Argus.
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Book I. Epistle VII.
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Book IV. Ode I. To Venus.
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A Dialogue. 1 ViewRate it
A Fragment Of A Poem.
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A Prologue - To A Play For Mr Dennis's Benefit, In 1733, When He Was Old, Blind, And In Great Distress, A Little Before His Death.
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