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Alexander Pope

1688 - 1744

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Pope has received more than 3,190,604 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Alexander Pope is the 644th most popular writer (up from 685th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 547th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Writer.

Alexander Pope is most famous for his satirical poems, such as "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad."

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  • 65.01

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  • 73

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  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Essay on Man
1733
Poems
1749
Dunciad
1728
The works of Alexander Pope, Esq
1717
The Rape of the Lock
Medical libraries
1714
An essay on criticism
1711

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Pope ranks 644 out of 7,302. Before him are Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ivan Franko, Irène Némirovsky, and Kōbō Abe. After him are Michael Crichton, Muriel Spark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Harper Lee, and Martin Amis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, Alexander Pope ranks 8. Before him are Nader Shah, Emanuel Swedenborg, Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Gyeongjong of Joseon, Juraj Jánošík, and Maria Luisa of Savoy. After him are James Francis Edward Stuart, Giuseppe Castiglione, Pierre de Marivaux, Stede Bonnet, Domenico Zipoli, and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. Among people deceased in 1744, Alexander Pope ranks 5. Before him are Anders Celsius, Giambattista Vico, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. After him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Giuseppe Guarneri, Marie Anne de Mailly, André Campra, Leonardo Leo, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and Antiochus Kantemir.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Pope ranks 475 out of 8,785. Before him are Eadred (923), Saint Walpurga (710), Denis Law (1940), Brook Taylor (1685), Æthelflæd (869), and Saint Boniface (680). After him are Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), G. E. Moore (1873), Muriel Spark (1918), Kate Winslet (1975), Robert Robinson (1886), and Diana Rigg (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Pope ranks 54. Before him are Samuel Butler (1835), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Donne (1572), J. M. Barrie (1860), Samuel Johnson (1709), and Daphne du Maurier (1907). After him are Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), Douglas Adams (1952), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772).

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