01610cam a22003253u 4500 7409 UtSlPG 20260610133207.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 An Essay on Criticism Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_Criticism Release date is 2005-02-01 Produced by Ted Garvin, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope is a major poem published in 1711. Composed in heroic couplets, this verse essay examines how writers and critics should behave in the literary world of Pope's time. The poem offers advice on good criticism while warning against common faults, emphasizing imitation of ancient writers like Homer and Virgil as the ultimate standard for taste. It's the source of enduring quotations including "To err is human; to forgive, divine" and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Criticism Poetry -- Early works to 1800 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7409 49400 49400