Alexander Pope, n.Definitions

Alexander Pope is a little nightingale, all sound and no sense.

Alexander Pope is a poet whose more ambitious works may be defined as careless thinking carefully versified.

Alexander Pope is a man whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote.

Alexander Pope is a writer whom to read is to practice one of the two ways of disliking poetry: the first way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Alexander Pope is an awful poet -- there are two ways of disliking poetry. One is to dislike it. The other is to read Pope.

Alexander Pope is a poet whose verses resembled nothing so much as spoonfuls of boiling oil, ladled out by a fiendish monkey at an upstairs window upon such of the passers-by whom the wretch had a grudge against.