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The Alexander Pope fandom is dying! Post your favorite Alexander Pope couplets and fun facts in this thread.

>> No.17478144

>>17477956
He was 4'6.

>> No.17478201

>>17478144
That's a wives' tale

>> No.17478266

>>17477956
Brilliant verse-maker, mediocre poet.

>> No.17478779

>>17478266
kys

>> No.17478824

>>17478779
He was a mediocre poet. Bland metaphors, repetitive meter, bland ideas. It's all derivative and highly rhetorical.
Still, probably the greatest verse-maker of the English language, as well as a very fine aphorist.

But poetry isn't verse, it's something else. Verse is just its usual vehicle.

>> No.17478844

>>17478824
>till, probably the greatest verse-maker of the English language, as well as a very fine aphorist.
What do you mean by "verse-maker" he was a great aphorist and probably would have been on par with Montaigne if he wrote essays.