Alexander Pope

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1. When was Alexander Pope born?May 21, 1688
2. When did Alexander Pope die?May 30, 1744 (age 56)
3. Where was Alexander Pope born?London, England
4. What is the career?Poet, satirist, literary critic, translator
5. Who was Alexander Pope?Alexander Pope was a famous English poet from the early 1700s who wrote funny and clever poems.
6. Why is he called a poet of the Augustan age?He lived during the Augustan age, a time when writers liked classical ideas of order and reason.

Augustan Age: A literary period in 18th-century England characterized by classical ideals, order, and reason.
Heroic Couplet: A pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, a favored form for Pope's precise and witty verse.
Mock-epic: A literary work that imitates the style and conventions of epic poetry but applies them to a trivial or humorous subject.