Pope: Everyman's Poetry

Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ESSAY ON CRITICISM, THE RAPE OF THE LOCK and THE DUNCIAD, and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS after Shakespeare.

Douglas Brooks-Davies was born in Wimbledon in 1942, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Brasenose College, Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research fellow, he has published widely on Renaissance and later literature, and is now a freelance writer. His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.