Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope 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 liter
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1727
1835 woodcut of "Pope's tree", under which Pope was believed to have composed several early poems
Mawson Arms, Chiswick Lane, with blue plaque to Pope
c. 1736 portrait of Pope attributed Jonathan Richardson
Homer
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Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly rever
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…and discursive poetry including An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–1717), The Dunciad (1728–1743), 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. "damning with faint praise" or…
Marble terminal bust of Homer. Roman copy of a lost 2nd-century BC Hellenistic original
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Part of an eleventh-century manuscript, "the Townley Homer". The writings on the top and right side are scholia.
Page from the first printed edition (editio princeps) of collected works by Homer edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Florence, 1489, Bibliothèque Nationale de France