A rich source of links on the literature, history, music, religion, philosophy, and economics of the eighteenth century. The site also provides links to e-texts with a useful search function.

Texts and Documents: Europe
http://history.hanover.edu/europe.htm

This page provides excellent links for all the major literary periods as well as the e-texts for many works. Look at this page for relevant historical, cultural, religious, and political background information on medieval, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, Victorian, and modern literature.

Augustan Satire Bibliography
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Biblio/satirebib.html

A useful annotated list of scholarly articles and books on the subject of satire. There are general listings on satire as well as specific scholarship on Pope's work. If you are writing on Pope's use of the satiric genre, this site is a good place to start.

The Rape of the Lock: E-text
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/Poetry/rape-of-the-lock.html

A full text of Pope's famous mock-heroic poem.

Selected Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/pope.html

At this site, you can read a large number of Pope's major works as well as search these texts by keyword or first line.

BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was born in London, England, and was the son of a Roman Catholic linen-draper. At the age of twelve he was stricken with a severe illness that affected his spine and stunted his growth (probably Potts disease). Barred from Protestant education because of his religion, Pope was largely self-taught, but by the age of seventeen, he was recognized as a prodigy.

His most famous poem, The Rape of the Lock (1714) is a mock epic, ridiculing upper-class, fashionable society. His successful translations of the Iliad (1720) and the Odyssey (1725-26) along with his edition of Shakespeare's works earned him a considerable amount of money. Later in life, he returned to writing verse satire, such as The Dunciad (1728-43), Imitations of Horace (1733-38), and Essay on Man (1734). Today he is regarded as the greatest English verse satirist.