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INTRODUCTION
The 17th century was a times of change for England. Many aspects of everyday life were steadily changing. Things were once done were slowly making way for a new way of thinking (Roberts, and Bisson, 380) . These changes were both visible from England’s politics to religion, freedom and law, from foreign policy to the way military and the navy was organized, from the arts to social and more personal things like marriage courtship and family. Another interesting change was the way in which the social pyramid was viewed and be defined in a way that today, we can look back and call somewhat modern. These were times in which Alexander Pope was born.
Pope was born in London on May 21 1688. His father was a Roman Catholic linen draper, who married a second time. Pope was the only child of this marriage and seems to have been a delicate, gentle, sweet-tempered, and maybe eve rather spoiled child. According to Peter Dixon, Pope's father, the son of an Anglican......

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