Despite its somewhat dry title, this text is not a musty prose dissection of literary criticism. Instead, the piece takes the shape of a long poem in which Pope, at the very peak of his powers, takes merciless aim at many of the best-known writers of his day. The epitome of the subtle but lethal wit Alexander Pope has come to be celebrated for, "An Essay on Criticism" is a fun and enlightening read for Brit-lit fans.
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Heinrich Heine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eugene Field, John Milton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Austin Dobson, Francis Bacon, Lyman Abbott, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson
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An Essay on Criticism
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The Rape of the Lock
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