Lane's review of An Essay On Criticism
An Essay On Criticism by Alexander Pope
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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