“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
About Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744
Alexander Pope, born on 21 May 1688 and dead on 30 May 1744, was the supreme English poet of the Augustan age and one of the most technically accomplished writers in the language. His verse made the heroic couplet seem at once inevitable, conversational, polished, and inexhaustibly flexible. In his best work, a pair…