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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}