All accidents have an invisible direction;

All disharmony is harmony and is not understood by people;

All small evils are another representation of great goodness! "

-from "On Man" alexander pope

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Alexander pope (1May 22, 688-1May 30, 744) was the greatest English poet in18th century.

The Pope was born into a Roman Catholic family. At that time, English law required schools to enforce the Anglican Church, so he didn't go to school. He taught himself at home and learned many works in Latin, Greek, French and Italian. He suffered from tuberculous spondylitis in his childhood, resulting in hunchback. His height did not exceed 1.37 meters, and he died young (at the age of 56). At the age of 65,438+02, Parker began to publish poems. At the age of 65,438+07, introduced by the dramatist Wycherley (65,438+0640-65,438+0765,438+06), he met some famous scholars in London at that time, and with the encouragement of Swift, he translated the ancient Greek epic Iliad in thirteen years. At the age of 2 1, Pope published pastoral poems (1709), and in the following years, he successively published Essays on Criticism (17 1 1) and the narrative poem Wen Shalin.

His first important work was171/kloc-0, which was published at the age of 23, and many of them have become English idioms. Influenced by nicolas boileaudespreaux Depre (1636-171kloc-0/), Pope proposed that only nature is the object worthy of study and description, and poets can't leave nature, and ancient Greek and Roman poetry is the best. Pope followed this classical principle in his literary creation.

17 12 wrote a long satirical poem "The Story of Lost Hair", and 17 14 added two chapters. This poem describes a boy who stole a lock of blonde hair from another girl, because it caused an argument between the two families. In the Iliad, Pope described it as as spectacular as the Trojan War and wrote a heroic epic.

Starting from 17 13 to translate Homer's epics Iliad and Odyssey. He didn't translate it accurately, but recreated it according to the spirit of the times in Britain at that time. He himself said that if Homer had lived in18th century England, he would have written these two epics in this way. However, these two versions are very popular in Britain, and Dr. Johnson, the editor of the first English dictionary, praised them as "noble poetry translations that the world has never seen before". The income of these two books is enough to make his life independent of sponsorship and make him firmly sit on the throne of English poet laureate.

Pope's masterpiece is the satirical poem The Rape of a Lock (17 14), which the poet calls "a hero-funny poem". This work makes a mild criticism of the boring life of British upper class. Pope's other poems include the satirical poem Duncia (1742), the philosophical poem Moral Essay (1731-kloc-0/735) and On Man (65435). In addition, Pope has compiled a collection of Shakespeare's plays.

Pope uses "heroic couplets" in his poems. Many of his words and expressions are neat, concise and philosophical, and some poems have almost become aphorisms.

After Parker's death, Di Anna held him in his arms, and Milton, Spencer and Chaucer welcomed him to heaven. 1725, he re-edited Shakespeare's works and made many changes with the standards of that time, which was criticized by scholars. He also wrote Epic of Fools, describing his critics as the darling of the Goddess of Fools. In 1930s, he intended to write a masterpiece about the relationship between man, nature and society, but only completed a preface: On Man (1734). 1735, he wrote a letter to Dr. Abasi, satirizing those morally corrupt people who are in high positions and at large.

Pope also wrote a famous epitaph for Newton: "Nature and its laws are hidden in the darkness, and God said,' Let Newton come', and then everything was exposed".

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations contains 2 12 incisive quotations from Pope's works. For example, "only a small amount of knowledge is dangerous", "everyone makes mistakes, which is hard to forgive" and "correct learning makes a person".

Since 17 19, the Pope has settled in Vikner Villa on the Thames. He often entertains friends and writes articles about architecture and landscape design. /kloc-Vikner Villa in the 20th century gave Pope a bad evaluation, thinking that his writing was too artificial, his rhythm was too rigid, and his satire was a bit inhuman. But in the 20th century, his popularity began to increase again, and some poems such as Lost Hair and some satirical poems were called the highest realm of satirical poems. However, some poems, such as On Man, are generally considered to be not creative. His translations of Iliad and Epic of Fools have always been controversial.

Pope was the first English poet to attract the attention of the European continent. His works have been translated into many European languages.