https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope :
After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having become popular in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.
Naturally enough, as far as my studies have gone, Pope was of English Catholic stock. I believe his Essay on Man will be an interesting enough count-point to the early Enlightenment when I move my studies to 1700-1750.
Pope was born in that Glorious Year (for Protestants) of 1688.
