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Epigram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: (epi-gramma) "to write on - inscribe", the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek...
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Alexander Pope ; Read about the great eighteenth-century writer Alexander Pope on this page devoted to the man and his works. Go to the Quotations link, find three gems that do not appear in your textbook, and record them in the Web Links Activity Log.
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Unit 4: Europe ... Browse through our Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice Web sites that offer additional information about selections and authors by clicking on the titles listed below. ... from the Aeneid by Virgil; "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" by Thomas Hardy; An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay;
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Pope, Alexander, (1688-1744): Epigrams: On Mrs. Tofts, To a Blockhead, The Fool and the Poet. From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe, by James Parton, an online collection of 19th century humorous English and American poetry. ... SO bright is thy beauty, so charming thy ... You beat your pate,
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"Epitaph on Gay" (1733), lines 1-2. Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 818. Compare: "Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child", John Dryden, Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew, line 70...
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things; To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply; Than just to look about us, and to die); Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man; ... A mighty maze! but not without a plan. 1 ... Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1.
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Who2 Biography: Alexander Pope, Poet ... His first major work was An Essay on Criticism (1711), a poem on the art of writing that contains several brilliant epigrams (e.g., "To err is human, to forgive, divine"). His witty mock-epic The Rape of the Lock (1712, 1714) ridicules fashionable society.
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