Pope, Alexander

Alexander Pope in the early 1700s was writing things like “He loses in less than eight days.”

Alexander Pope died: the celebrated English poet and epistolary writer.

Reproduced in fac-simile of the author's handwriting, and illustrated with beautiful colored designs by Alexander Pope.

On the other hand, Alexander Pope's verse rendering has nothing Homeric about it.

Alexander Pope was still writing when Josiah was apprenticed and known already as a "fine thrower."

His human nature is of the kind that makes the nymphs and swains of Alexander Pope dull and artificial.