Alexander Pope (21 Mei 1688 – 30 Mei 1744) adalah penyair Inggris abad ke-18 yang terkenal karena bait-bait satirnya dan terjemahan Homer buatannya. Ia dikenal sering menulis dalam bentuk kuplet heroik. Ia adalah penulis ketiga yang namanya paling banyak disebut di The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations setelah Shakespeare dan Tennyson.
Alexander Pope | |
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Alexander Pope (c. 1727), penyair Inggris yang menulis Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock dan The Dunciad | |
| Lahir | 21 Mei 1688 London |
| Meninggal | 30 Mei 1744 (umur 56) Twickenham (sekarang daerah di London) |
| Pekerjaan | Penyair |
| Tanda tangan |
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- 1709: Pastorals
- 1711: An Essay on Criticism
- 1712: Messiah
- 1712: The Rape of the Lock (dilanjutkan lagi tahun 1714)
- 1713: Windsor Forest
- 1715–1720: Terjemahan Iliad
- 1717: Eloisa to Abelard
- 1717: Three Hours After Marriage, with others
- 1717: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
- 1723–1725: The Works of Shakespear, in Six Volumes
- 1725–1726: Translation of the Odyssey
- 1727: Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry
- 1728: The Dunciad
- 1733–1734: Essay on Man
- 1735: The Prologue to the Satires (lihat Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot dan Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?)
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- 1700: Ode on Solitude
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1999)
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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- 'Alexander Pope', Literature Online biography (Chadwyck-Healey: Cambridge, 2000).
- The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (edisi ke-5th). Oxford University Press. 1999.
- "Martha Blount". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Diakses tanggal 17 April 2009.
- Baines, Paul (2001). The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope. Routledge Publishing. hlm. 67–90.
- Cassirer, Ernst (1944). An essay on man; an introduction to a philosophy of human culture. Yale University Press.
- Gordon, Ian (2002-01-24). "An Epistle to a Lady (Moral Essay II)". The Literary Encyclopedia. Diakses tanggal 2009-04-17.
- Erskine-Hill, Howard. 'Pope, Alexander (1688–1744)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, online edn, Jan 2008). Accessed 18 April 2009.
- Mack, Maynard (1985). Alexander Pope: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press. (the definitive biography.)
- Nuttal, Anthony (1984). Pope's Essay on Man. Allen and Unwin. hlm. 3–15, 167–188.
- Rogers, Pat (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press.
- Rogers, Pat (2006). The Major Works. Oxford University Press. hlm. 17–39.
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- Karya Alexander Pope di Project Gutenberg
- Catholic Encyclopedia, "Alexander Pope"
- BBC audio file. In Our Time, radio 4 discussion of Pope.
- University of Toronto "Representative Poetry Online" page on Pope 2006-10-10 di Wayback Machine.
- Pope's Grave
- The Twickenham Museum 2011-05-14 di Wayback Machine.
- Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust
- Richmond Libraries' Local Studies Collection. Local History 2007-09-27 di Wayback Machine.. Accessed 2010-10-19
- Arsip-arsip yang berhubungan dengan Alexander Pope terdaftar di The National Archives (Britania Raya)
- Potret Alexander Pope di National Portrait Gallery, London
- Images relating to Alexander Pope 2013-07-31 di Wayback Machine. at the English Heritage Archive
- Blue Plaque at 110 Chiswick Lane South, Chiswick, London W4 2LR