An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope

• Poetry
• Book language: English
• 42 pages

Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem in rhymed couplets on the principles of literary criticism and taste. It discusses nature, wit, and rules, offering advice to poets and critics. It is worth hearing for its wit and lines that have become familiar maxims.

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