foresaw with grief,rancor,and depression of spirits.For no Shakespeare. one,not even a pretty woman who wakes up to find a pimple on her nose,feels so vexed as an author who threatens to survive c.Dunciad (1728) his own reputation-witness Marivaux and the younger It begins his career as major verse satirist. Crebillon. d.Essay on Man (1733-1734) A philosophical poem gives memorable expression to ideas about Ⅲ.English Literature the nature and man's place in it. Here are some examples of his poems: 1.Alexander Pope(1688-1744) A little learning is a dangerous thing; Pope was the great poet and verse satirist of the 18th century. Drink deep,or taste not the Pierian spring. This so-called "Augustan Age"in English literature produced no There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, greater satirical poetry than that of Alexander Pope,and no other And drinking largely sobers us again. poet in the history of English literature has handled the heroic couplet (An Essay on Criticism) with comparable flexibility and brilliance.Pope became renowned for his translations of Homer and for his biting counterattacks on the Some to conceit alone their taste confine, criticisms of his literary enemies.He represented the rationalistic And glittering thoughts struck out at every line; neoclassical tendency in literature and has often been called the Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit, spokesman in verse of the Age of Reason. One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. He wrote many works,but he is chiefly remembered for the following titles: True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought,but ne'er so well expressed; a.Essay on Criticism (1711) Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, It establishes him as a master of didactic poetry. That gives us back the image of our mind. (An Essay on Criticism) b.The Rape of the Lock (1712-1714) It is a mock-heroic epic ridiculing the society of his time. Say first,of God above,or man below, From 1713 to 1726 he translated Homer and edited What can we reason,but from what we know? 248 249