Alexander pope and essay on criticism
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This document provides an overview of the English poet Alexander Pope, including a brief biography and details about his major works. It focuses on discussing the general principles of good criticism and poetry that Pope outlines in his Essay on Criticism. The principles emphasize that nature should be the source and test of all art, and that art should work without show or pomp by informing and sustaining its subject like the soul animates the body.
Alexander pope and essay on criticism
- 1. Alexander Pope Prepared by: Ihsan M. Abdulqadir Kurdistan - Iraq
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- 7. Major works of Pope
- 9. General Principals of Good Criticism and Poetry in Essay on Criticism : ‘’'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose
- 12. General Principals ‘’Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd and Universal Light, Life, Force, and Beauty, must to all impart , At once the Source, and End, and Test of Art. Art from that Fund each just Supply provides, Works without Show, and without Pomp presides: In some fair Body thus th' informing Soul With Spirits feeds, with Vigour fills the whole, Each Motion guides, and ev'ry Nerve sustains; It self unseen, but in th' Effects, remains’’ Lines (70-80).
- 15. Epigram • A little learning is a dangerous thing *
- 16. Thank you Instructor Thank you Colleagues