Which Neoclassical poet wrote the mock-heroic narrative poem The Rape of the Lock and formulated the aphorism 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Alexander Pope
- Step 1: Alexander Pope was the master of the heroic couplet in 18th-century Augustan literature. Step 2. His mock-epic The Rape of the Lock satirizes a petty quarrel among high-society families over a severed lock of hair. Answer: Alexander Pope. Why not the others: John Dryden led Restoration poetry; Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels; Samuel Johnson compiled the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.
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