# Alexander Pope

> Pope wrote the lines you quote without knowing they're his - "to err is human; to forgive, divine" and "damning with faint praise" among them - couplets so clean they dissolved into the language itself.

*English poet (1688-1744)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1688-05-21
- **Died:** 1744-05-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alexander Pope was born 21 May 1688 and became the sharpest poet of the English Enlightenment, a master of the heroic couplet who could skewer pretension and translate Homer with equal precision. An Essay on Criticism arrived in 1711, then The Rape of the Lock between 1712 and 1717 - mock-heroic verse that turned a stolen lock of hair into high comedy. The Dunciad followed from 1728 to 1743, a long satirical assault on dullness in all its forms. He died 30 May 1744, leaving behind translations of Homer and a body of Augustan verse so quotable that The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations returns to him constantly, proof that wit outlasts its targets.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 65.3

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