Alexander Pope
Pope, a very sensitive man, would strike back hard, and in the constant verbal battles he developed a style of biting satire.
He was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England, but was not entirely blind to the rapid moral, political and cultural deterioration.
For him the supreme values was order-cosmic order, political order , social order, aesthetic order, and this emphasis an order expression in all of his works. Pope made his name as a great poet with the publication of an Essay on Criticism in 1711.
Pope strongly advocated Neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rule of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
A. 现实批评观
a. He upheld the existing social system as an ideal one, but he was not entirely blind to the rapid moral, political and cultural deterioration.
b. He published The Rape of the Lock and use the mock epic form to retell the cutting of the lock, to ridicule the trivial incident and to satirize the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.
B.文学观He strongly advocated neoclassicism.
C代表作品An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, An Essay on Man.
The translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
The edition of Shakespeare’s plays.
