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Alexander Pope
• Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best 
known for his satirical verse and for his translation of 
Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in 
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after William 
Shakespeare and Alfred Tennyson. 
• An Essay On Criticism is one of the first major poems 
written by Pope. Despite the title, the poem is not as 
much an original analysis as it is compilation of 
Pope's reading of different "ancients". It is the only 
significant critical treatise in English written in verse; it 
is famous for its polished lines, many of which have 
become proverbial ( to err is human, to forgive is 
divine).
• The key term in Pope's Essay is 'Nature' 
• It is not Nature as the Romantics were to understand 
it, wild and mysterious, but something reflecting 
deep order, moderation, universal laws. 
• According to Pope, past percept and past examples 
are to be respected not simply for their antiquity but 
because they enshrine Nature's laws. 
• In his treatise Pope offers a history of literary 
criticism: the great critics of the classical past had 
'methodiz'd' Nature, suppressed 'licence' and 
brought a golden age.
• It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic 
couplets. It is a verse essay primarily concerned with 
how writers and critics behave in the new literary 
commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The poem 
covers a range of good criticism and advice. It also 
represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's 
age. 
• The poem was said to be a response to an ongoing 
debate on the question of whether poetry should be 
natural, or written according to predetermined 
artificial rules inherited from the classical past.
• He discusses the lows to which a critic should 
adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that 
critics serve an important function in aiding poets 
with their works, as opposed to the practice of 
attacking them. 
• The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses 
the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal 
critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man as a 
tool to make the argument that poetry only conveys a 
separate reality, but that it has a long venerable 
history, and it does not lie. It is defensible in its own 
right as a mean to move readers to virtuous action.
• He discusses the lows to which a critic should 
adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that 
critics serve an important function in aiding poets 
with their works, as opposed to the practice of 
attacking them. 
• The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses 
the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal 
critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man as a 
tool to make the argument that poetry only conveys a 
separate reality, but that it has a long venerable 
history, and it does not lie. It is defensible in its own 
right as a mean to move readers to virtuous action.

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Alexander pope

  • 2. • Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after William Shakespeare and Alfred Tennyson. • An Essay On Criticism is one of the first major poems written by Pope. Despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is compilation of Pope's reading of different "ancients". It is the only significant critical treatise in English written in verse; it is famous for its polished lines, many of which have become proverbial ( to err is human, to forgive is divine).
  • 3. • The key term in Pope's Essay is 'Nature' • It is not Nature as the Romantics were to understand it, wild and mysterious, but something reflecting deep order, moderation, universal laws. • According to Pope, past percept and past examples are to be respected not simply for their antiquity but because they enshrine Nature's laws. • In his treatise Pope offers a history of literary criticism: the great critics of the classical past had 'methodiz'd' Nature, suppressed 'licence' and brought a golden age.
  • 4. • It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. It is a verse essay primarily concerned with how writers and critics behave in the new literary commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The poem covers a range of good criticism and advice. It also represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age. • The poem was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural, or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past.
  • 5. • He discusses the lows to which a critic should adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that critics serve an important function in aiding poets with their works, as opposed to the practice of attacking them. • The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man as a tool to make the argument that poetry only conveys a separate reality, but that it has a long venerable history, and it does not lie. It is defensible in its own right as a mean to move readers to virtuous action.
  • 6. • He discusses the lows to which a critic should adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that critics serve an important function in aiding poets with their works, as opposed to the practice of attacking them. • The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man as a tool to make the argument that poetry only conveys a separate reality, but that it has a long venerable history, and it does not lie. It is defensible in its own right as a mean to move readers to virtuous action.