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Frontispiece. An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution. His father (Alexander Pope, 1646–1717) was a successful linen merchant in the Strand , London . His mother, Edith (née Turner, 1643–1733), was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York .
Rousseau also critiqued the work, questioning "Pope's uncritical assumption that there must be an unbroken chain of being all the way from inanimate matter up to God". [8] The essay, written in heroic couplets, comprises four epistles. Pope began work on it in 1729, and had finished the first three by 1731.
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays were published between 1731 and 1735. Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons ) is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope , published between 1731 and 1735.
Alexander Pope (b. May 21, 1688) was a satirist known for his Horatian satirist style and translation of the Iliad. Famous throughout and after the long 18th century, Pope died in 1744. [104] Pope, in his The Rape of the Lock, is delicately chiding society in a sly but polished voice by holding up a mirror to the follies and vanities of the ...
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism [71] For Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon , Erasmus was "the father of rational theology." [ 72 ] : 157 An 1876 Edition of The Praise of Folly said of him "Erasmus was the most facetious man, and the greatest critic of his age.
Literary critic Lee Oser has suggested that Christian humanism ended with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope; however, it began again with G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien. [ 16 ] Personalism , an intellectual stance that emphasizes the importance of human persons, has been treated as a modern name for the Christian humanism ...
Alexander Pope (with William Broome and Elijah Fenton) 1688–1744, poet 1725: London, Bernard Lintot [107] ... They died of their own soul's folly, for witless as ...