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Show 1 WHO SAID ' For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad." The irony which marks the words quotod above may bo found throughout through-out the works of Alexander Pope, the great English writer, and perhaps the I greatest of the English satirists. I From his Infancy Popo was an invalid. in-valid. He was denied regular school-ling school-ling because of poor health and to the fact that he was in pain much of his I life may bo attributed tho nolo of cynicism which pervades much of his ! w rit 1 en work. Pope's pen was most bitter and nothlmr seems to have given him so much pleasure as to write about the weakiiet-ses of humanity. His work frequently is that of one who holds a resentment toward mankind. As a writer Pope was most successful success-ful financially His translations of tho works or Homer brought him more than 9.000 pounds. The translation transla-tion of the Illiad is wholly from his pen; the translation of the ' 'dyssey is only partly his work. Tho character of Pope is one worth studying. He seems to have been of an irascible nature; prone to flatter). At Hie same time ho was most kind-hearted kind-hearted and most loyal to his friends among whom were such noted writers writ-ers as Swift Arbuthnut and Gay. As a poet it can bo truly said that none ranks higher than Pope in the correctness cor-rectness of his versification. Tho death of Alexander Pope occurred oc-curred May 30, 1 744, at his home at Twickenham. He was 60 yean of age when he died Wayne D. Mc. Murray. 90 |