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18th century
Alexander Pope
Born in Londen, 1688, when King Charles II was overthrown by revolution.
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Suffered a tubercular condition (vorm van tuberculose, longziekte) that permanently deformed his spine.
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In 1700 forced to leave Londen and make a new home for themselves in the village of Binfield, Windsor.
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became friends with many of the leading writers of his day, including Jonathan Swift
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adult life
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not an academic recluse, he had many admirers
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in his literary career, Pope made several significant changes of direction
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he translated work of classical writers, particularly Homer and Vergil, into English
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His physical deformity had an adverse effect on his character: he became embittered and was often rude to his literary and political opponents.
All his later works were all satires and so-called ‘moral’ poems, in which he lectured certain people or even society as a whole.
Broadsheet
Until the 18th century, the papers began to take on a form that we would recognise today.
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Lower Countries
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'coranto'
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De Courante uyt Italien, Duytsland & C
first English newspaper
the Corante, or newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France
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The Rape of the Lock
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John Caryll, his close friend, asked him to mediate in a dispute between two noble families.
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In the poem:
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Belinda warned by er servants of the disaster, but did not listen and whent on a boat tripe down the Thames.
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