Alexander Pope (n.) is a man whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote.
Alexander Pope (n.) is an awful poet -- there are two ways of disliking poetry. One is to dislike it. The other is to read Pope.
Alexander Pope (n.) 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 (n.) is a little nightingale, all sound and no sense.
A Bard (n.) carried the news before there was news, and improved it.
A Bard (n.) sang the king's victories and ate at the king's table, which explains the victories.
Bard (n.) is one of the numerous aliases under which the poet seeks to veil his identity and escape opprobrium.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (n.) is the poet who painted women the way other men wrote sonnets
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (n.) is not a painter: he is a ladies' maid.
E.E. Cummings (n.) broke capitalization and somehow made love poems clearer.