He is the English Horace, - Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.

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Alternative Names: Pope the Poet • Alexander I Pope • Alexander, I Pope

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Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

If, where the rules not far enough extend,
(Since rules were made but to promote their end)
Some lucky licence answer to the full
The intent proposed, that licence is a rule.

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