Pope is the greatest English poet in18th century. He is a representative of classical poets. Pope's representative works include Pastoral Poetry, Iliad, Odyssey and Criticism. Pope was the first English poet who attracted the attention of European countries. Many of his works have been translated into many European languages.
Pope was born in an era when English law required schools to enforce the Anglican Church, so Pope never went to school. He taught himself at home since he was a child. He studied Greek, Latin, French, Italian and many other languages, and also learned many works from these countries, so Pope was self-taught. Because of his talent in these areas, Pope published his poems at the age of 12. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he met some scholars through the recommendation of the dramatist Wycherley, and with their encouragement, he completed many works. It can be seen that Pope is very talented in this respect and has also made his later success.
Because he got tuberculous spondylitis when he was young, he was hunchbacked and his height did not exceed 1.37 meters, which became his lifelong regret. He is a handsome man, but because of his height, he once had some inferiority complex, but he finally overcame it. But it was precisely because of this illness as a child that Pope left the root of the disease, which led to his untimely death and only enjoyed 56 years of good times.
The Pope's Life Information
Pope was born into a Catholic family in Rome on 1688. At that time, because English law required schools to enforce the Anglican Church, Pope had never been to school since he was a child and taught himself at home. He studied a large number of literary works, such as Greek, Latin, French and Italian. Because he suffered from tuberculous spondylitis and hunchback when he was young, his height did not exceed 1.37 meters, which became his lifelong regret.
Pope has published poetry since 12 years old. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he met some famous scholars in London at that time through the recommendation of the dramatist Wycherley, and with the encouragement of Swift, he translated the ancient Greek epics Odyssey and Iliad in thirteen years. Pope published pastoral poems when he was 2 1 year-old, and in the following years, he published Criticism and the narrative poem Windsalin one after another. These have become his important masterpieces.
Most of Pope's poems use "heroic couplets". Many of his words are neat, concise and philosophical, and some poems can almost become aphorisms. Pope was the first English poet to attract the attention of the European continent, and his works were also translated into many European languages. The Pope died prematurely because of his physical condition. He is 56 years old. In his short life, he also left great literary wealth to mankind.
Introduction of Popper's Works
Pope's works are many, such as Iliad, Odyssey, Pastoral Poetry, Review and so on. His first important work was Poetry Review published in 17 1 1, and many famous sentences have become English idioms. Influenced by Fran? ois Poirot, a French classical literary theorist, Pope proposed in On Poetry that only nature is the object worthy of description and study, and poets can't leave nature, and the poems of Rome and ancient Greece are the best artistic models.
17 12, the pope wrote a long satirical poem "The Story of Lost Hair", and two more poems were added in 17 14 two years later. This poem describes a boy who secretly lost a strand of blonde hair from another girl, so the two families caused an argument. Pope described it as spectacular as a war and wrote a heroic epic.
From 17 13, Pope translated Homer's epics Iliad and Odyssey, and he re-created them according to the spirit of the British times at that time. These two books are very popular in Britain, and Dr. Johnson, the editor of the first English dictionary, praised them as "noble poetry translations that the world has never seen before". Pope's masterpiece is the satirical long poem The Story of a Robber with Curly Hair, which is called "the comic poem of a hero" by the poet. This work also comments on the boring life of British upper class. Pope has many other satirical poems, such as The Story of a Fool. The style of Popper's poems is mostly "heroes' couplet", with concise words and expressions, neat and full of philosophy.