And all was light.
One of this author's poems calls mankind "the glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" and advises "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan." After being asked to write a couplet for a monument commemorating Newton, this author wrote "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! And all was light." This author wrote a poem in which sylphs fail to prevent the Baron from using (*) scissors to cut off some of Belinda's hair, and he used heroic couplets to write "An Essay on Criticism" and "An Essay on Man." For 10 points, name this eighteenth-century English poet of "The Rape of the Lock."
One of this author's poems calls mankind "the glory, jest, and riddle of the world!"
Alexander {Pope}