Achievements Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.[1] Pope's use of the heroic couplet is famous.
Works poetry Poetical Miscellanies (1709, poetry) An Essay on Criticism (1711, poetry) The Rape of the Lock (1712–14, poetry) The Dunciad (1728) Peri Bathouse, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728) An Essay on Man (1733–34) The New Dunciad (1742)