Show nature both kind and unkind to great poet Alexi alexander inder pope the author of the rape of the loch and an essay on man wits was the son of a london tradesman and was born in 1688 sickly at birth lie ho remained sickly it was only by the greatest care that ure life was kept in ills his frail body when lie he rea reached clied manhood lie he was withered and small being but four feet tall he was a remarkable scholar surpassing perhaps perli aps anyone of his time ills greatest works were those mentioned above also ills his translations of the iliad and odyssey have been held in high esteem ills poetry was roughly handled b by y the london critics but for all his insignificant appearance lie he was a bi bitter t fighter and lashed out with tongue and pen in a way that caused all but the most hardy to shun him from popular biography |