alexander pope

     

The phrase "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" sprang from his "Essay on Man"

Trivia about alexander pope

  • In his "Essay on Man", he wrote, "Know then thy self presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man"
  • From his 1711 Essay on Criticism: "'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, but the joint force & full result of all"
  • In 1714, two years after "The Rape of the Lock" was first published, he expanded it from 2 cantos to 5
  • "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"
  • He claimed that he wrote his "Ode on Solitude" when he was 12 (& "An Essay on Man" somewhat later)

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