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Published on : 13 May, 2014 Published by : LitStackEditor

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On this day, May 21, in 1688, poet Alexander Pope was born in London, England. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson: “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”, “Hope springs eternal…”, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” are just a few of his famous lines. His scathing satire did not win him many friends in high places, but he was a rare example of a man of his time who made an independent living solely on his writing. He died in 1744 at age 56, possibly due to asthma and tuberculosis.

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