How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Dunciad and Moral Essays

Though the Dunciad was first publiAlexander Poped anonymously in Dublin its authorship was not in doubt. He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson.