1、Alexander Pope,（1688-1744）,Pope was an outstanding enlightener and the greatest English poet of the classical school in the first half of the 18th century. He was a master in the art of poetry and was certainly the greatest in his stage. It was Pope that carried heroic couplet to its last stage of p

2、erfection.,Popes poems usually used heroic couplet.（英雄雙韻體）,A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.,Alexander Pope was born in a Catholic family. The strong anti-Catholic sen

3、timentended his formal education and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers. He also studied many languages and read works by English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek poets.,From the age of 12, he suffered numerous health problems, such asPotts disease（脊椎

4、結(jié)核?。? which deformed his body and stunted his growth, leaving him with a severe hunchback.He grew to a height of only 1.37m. Pope was already removed from society because he was Catholic; his poor health only alienated him further. Although he never married, he had many female friends to whom he wro

5、te witty letters. Allegedly, his lifelong friendMartha Blountwas his lover.,Poetry,Essay on Criticism 批評論,Rape of the Lock 卷發(fā)遇劫記,Essay on Man 人論 The Dunciad 愚人志 Moral Essays 道德論,Translations and editions,Translation of theIliad（伊利亞特） Translation of theOdyssey（奧德賽） Edition of Shakespeares works,The R

6、ape of the Lock,Popes most famous poem isThe Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.It is amock-heroicnarrative poem, which satirises a high-society quarrel between Arabella Fermor (the Belinda of the poem) andLord Petre, who had snipped a lock of hair fr

7、om her head without her permission.The satirical style is tempered, however, by a genuine and almost voyeuristic interest in the beau-monde (fashionable world) of 18th-century English society.The revised and extended version of the poem brought more clearly into focus its true subject - the onset of acquisitive individualism and a society of conspicuous co