Alexander Pope
poet · London, England · Twickenham · 1688–1744
A childhood illness left him hunchbacked and stunted, and as a Catholic he could not go to university, yet he became the first English poet to live by his pen alone.
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1714 · The scene in which the Baron, having drunk his coffee, thinks of a way to snip off a lock of the lady's hair
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New Stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain.
The Rape of the Lock, canto 3
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