Alexander Pope ( Alexander Pope ; May 21, 1688 , London , England - May 30, 1744 , Twickenham , England ) - an English poet of the XVIII century , one of the largest authors of British classicism .
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| Occupation | poet , philosopher , translator |
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| Language of Works | English |
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Biography
Alexander Pope was born on May 21, 1688 in the city of London .
His father, a Catholic and an adherent of the fallen Stuart dynasty, did not want to see the triumph of Whigs and Protestantism , left London and settled in a small estate in the vicinity of Windsor. Pope was a sickly, frail boy, a hunchback. Unable to take part in peer games, he learned from childhood to seek solace in the ideal world and re-read a lot of books from his father’s library. The doors to public schools were then closed to Catholics, and he could not receive a systematic education; his aunt taught him to read, the Catholic priest gave him the first lessons of Latin and Greek. From the age of 12 he was completely left to his own devices and began to write poetry. His first critic was his father, who looked at poetry solely from the side of form and appreciated the sonorous rhyme above all. The advice of his father and the reading of J. Dryden , whom Pope considered the best poet in England, determined at a young age his desire for classical subjects and cleanliness of form [6] .
Pope reformed the English versification , developing the Alexandrian verse (in the English tradition - "heroic couplet"). He translated Homer's Iliad into English with five- foot iambic , with the participation of Parnell and Fenton and Broome - Odyssey . Pope is the author of philosophical (“Experiences of morality”, “Experience about a man”), satirical (“Dunsiada”) and iroicomic poems (“The Rape of the Curl”). The author of the epitaph on the tombstone of Sir Isaac Newton .
Three satellites of the planet Uranus are named after the heroes of Pope’s poem “Theft of the lock ” ( English Rape of the Lock ): Belinda , Umbriel and Ariel (the latter also appeared earlier in Shakespeare's The Tempest).
A. Pope bequeathed a considerable amount to the literary critic William Warburton , who spoke rather flatteringly about his works [7] .
Editions in Russian
- Poems. M .: Fiction, 1988.
- Alexander Pope in the library of Maxim Moshkov
- Pop, Alexander. Theft of curl. Iroicomic poem / Translation from English, introduction and notes by Ilya Kutik // New World . 2014 . Number 12
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Alexander (1688-1744) Pope
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ RKDartists
- ↑ Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ Storozhenko N.I. Pop, Alexander // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Vengerova Z. A. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Rogers, Pat . The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- Cassirer, Ernst . An essay on man; an introduction to a philosophy of human culture (Yale University Press, 1944).