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A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. - Alexander Pope Attribution: Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.

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Alexander Pope

Salem on History:

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Encyclopedia:

• Pope, Alexander (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Pope, Alexander (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Alexander Pope (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Alexander Pope (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Alexander Pope (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)

Literary Criticism:

• Pope, Alexander (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
• The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
• An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
• Pope, Alexander (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Alexander Pope is born
• Alexander Pope publishes An Essay on Criticism
• Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock
• Alexander Pope publishes The Dunciad
• Alexander Pope publishes An Essay on Man, in four volumes
• Alexander Pope publishes An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
• Alexander Pope dies