An Essay on Criticism eBook: Alexander Pope: Amazon.co.uk.
An essay on criticism by Alexander Pope is an interesting book written more than three centuries ago and yet so relevant if one were to derive the overall meaning of the book. The way it is written, it is not easy to comprehend but still it keeps the reader engaged throughout the book. Overall an interesting read.
An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's various literary opinions.
An Essay on Criticism. by Alexander Pope, Esq. (Paperback) Published June 10th 2010 by Gale Ecco, Print Editions Paperback, 34 pages.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Pope, who was born in London, was taught to read by his aunt and then sent to two surreptitious Catholic schools. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism is an attempt to balance theology and aesthetics. Pope in his essay follows the tradition of Horace’s Ars Poetica.His essay concerns with good literary criticism and poetry, and how they stay in harmony. To harmonize them, he shows a relation between the classical notion of nature and wit, both being essential to poetry as well as criticism.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, complete in two volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author.
The paperback that Amazon is selling is actually John Oldmixon's Essay on Criticism (1728), not Pope's verse essay of the same name (1709). However, the free ebook distributed by Amazon is Pope's Essay.