Physical disability, religious biases, and to top it all a vulnerable target of people’s mockery – a life loaded with ‘wrongs’, but hats off to the indefatigable spirit of the man called Alexander Pope.

Pope faced all adversities, natural and manmade to emerge as England’s Poet Laureate, whose chosen weapon, ‘satire’ blunted all attacks, through verse and poetic forms to every poetry lover’s delight.

The Rape of the Lock sets him apart from the rest of the ‘pack’. His distinguished epigrams show uncanny wit, humor and of course all that he got early in life returned in the same coin.

"For fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", he said.So let us tread softly on the following pages to have an insight on his life and works.