Alexander Pope (1688----1744)
Introduction
Alexander Pope was born in a Roman Catholics family. His religion prevented him from a formal course of education, since Catholics were not admitted to the universities. He was mainly self-educated. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, and Italian. At age of 12, he began to write verses.
He suffered Pott’s disease (结核性脊椎炎) which limited his growth and his full-grown height was meters. He was a lifelong sufferer from headaches, and his disease made him sensitive to physical and mental pain.
Works
1705, Pastorals《田园诗集》
1711, An Essay on Criticism《批评论》
The Rape of the Lock《夺发记》(two cantos, 1712; five cantos, 1714) (An ical Poem 英雄滑稽诗)
1713, Windsor-Forest《温莎林》
1728, The Dunciad 《愚人志》
1731-1735, Moral Essays《道德论》
1734, An Essay on Man《人论》
1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 《与阿布斯诺博士书》
The translations of Homer’s Iliad 《伊利亚特》and Odyssey《奥德赛》(poet laureate)
The edition of Shakespeare’s plays.
There are lots of brilliantly polished epigrams in An Essay on Criticism which have e part of the proverbial heritage of the language.(这部作品中很多名句已成为英语成语。)
①A little learning is a dangerous thing.
(一知半解是危险的。)
②To err is human, to forgive, divine.
(人非圣贤孰能无过。)
③ For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
(智者裹足不前,愚者铤而走险。)
Pope treated the dispute of two families as the quarrel between Greeks and Trojans, which had been Homer’s theme. Tell
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