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1688 Born in London. His father, a linen merchant, saved a moderate competency, and received some accessions of fortune by his marriage with Edith Turner, his second wife, and the poet`s mother. 1709 His pastorals and some translations appeared in Tonson`s Miscellany 1711 Essay on Criticism 1713 Windsor Forest 1713 he was forced to remove himself from London following further anti-Catholic measures after the Jacobite rebellion 1714 Rape of the Lock (when completed, the most graceful, airy, and imaginative of his works) 1717 his father died at Chiswick 1720 He turned to translation with the Iliad 1728 The Dunciad 1735 Epistle to Doctor Arbuthnot 1744 he died on the 30th of May, 1744, and was buried in the church at Twickenham. |
