Pope: Everyman's Poetry

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Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock,Pope spoke out against society and his profession,in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Douglas Brooks-Davies was born in Wimbledon in 1942, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Brasenose College, Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research fellow, he has published widely on Renaissance and later literature, and is now a freelance writer. His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.

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