Introduction the actuality of the course work

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION 3
1. Poetry of Alexander Pope 5
2. Works Pope had been fascinated since childhood. 10
3. Spirit, skill and satire. 15
4. Quotes by Pope. 18
CONCLUSION 23
GLOSSARY 26
BIBLIOGRAPHY 28

INTRODUCTION

The actuality of the course work: The English poet Alexander Pope is regarded as one of the finest poets and satirists people who use wit or sarcasm to point out and devalue sin or silliness of the Augustan mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century English literature period and one of the major influences on English literature in this time and after. Pope was precocious showed the characteristics of an older person at a young age as a child and attracted the notice of a noted bookseller who published his Pastorals. By this time Pope was already at work on his more ambitious Essay on Criticism designed to create a rebirth of the contemporary literary scene. The Rape of the Lock immediately made Pope famous as a poet. It was a long humorous poem in the classical style likeness to ancient Greek and Roman writing. Instead of treating the subject of heroic deeds, though, the poem was about the attempt of a young man to get a lock of hair from his beloved's head. It was based on a true event that happened to people he knew. Several other poems were published by 1717, the date of the first collected edition of Pope's works.
The aim of the course work: An early emergence of a man of letters may have been assisted by Pope’s poor physique. As a result of too much study, so he thought, he acquired a curvature of the spine and some tubercular infection, probably Pott’s disease, that limited his growth and seriously impaired his health. He was a lifelong sufferer from headaches, and his deformity made him abnormally sensitive to physical and mental pain. Though he was able to ride a horse and delighted in travel, he was inevitably precluded from much normal physical activity, and his energetic, fastidious mind was largely directed to reading and writing. Alexander Pope had a huge influence in literature in his living period. His works make us to learn them because of their precious meaning.