An Essay On Criticism
by Alexander Pope
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Read in January, 2002
how prescient was Pope?
did he foresee the heavy-handed and ultimately uninspired contemporary, po-mo approach to lit-crit?
indeed, Alexander Pope offers the most precise summation of post-modernism available:
"Such labored nothings
in so strange a style
amaze th' unlearned
and make the learned smile"
did he foresee the heavy-handed and ultimately uninspired contemporary, po-mo approach to lit-crit?
indeed, Alexander Pope offers the most precise summation of post-modernism available:
"Such labored nothings
in so strange a style
amaze th' unlearned
and make the learned smile"
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Sometimes, I grow the silly delusion that I might have the potential to be a writer. As a curative, I read this, Lycidas, and Hours of Idleness; then I recall that not only am I not a writer, I am old.
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One of my very favorites. He defines, despite objective opinion, the responsibilities and parameters of the critic by ruefully sublimating the task of a critic.
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Read in January, 1994
I love a man that can make good sense and aim beautiful barbs in perfect, rhymed couplets.
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"Words are like leaves and where they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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