TY - BOOK AU - Pope,Alexander TI - An Essay on Criticism AV - PR PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Criticism KW - Poetry -- Early works to 1800 N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7409 ER -