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Pope wrote “An Essay on Criticism” when he was 23; he was influenced by Quintillian, Aristotle, Horace’s Ars Poetica, and Nicolas Boileau’s L’Art Poëtique. Written in heroic couplets, the tone is straight-forward and conversational.

Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" seeks to lay down rules of good taste in poetry criticism, and in poetry itself. Structured as an essay in rhyming verse, it offers advice to the aspiring critic while satirizing amateurish criticism and poetry.

An Essay on Criticism (1711) was Pope’s first independent work, published anonymously through an obscure bookseller [12–13]. Its implicit claim to authority is not based on a lifetime’s creative work or a prestigious commission but, riskily, on the skill and argument of the poem alone.

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711.

An Essay on Criticism, didactic poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in 1711 when the author was 22 years old. Although inspired by Horace’s Ars poetica, this work of literary criticism borrowed from the writers of the Augustan Age.

AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. BY ALEXANDER POPE, WITH INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. ALEXANDER POPE. This eminent English poet was born in London, May 21, 1688. His parents were Roman Catholics, and to this faith the poet adhered, thus debarring himself from public office and employment.

“An Essay on Criticism” (1709) is a work of both poetry and criticism. Pope attempts in this long, three-part poem, which he wrote when he was twenty-three, to examine neoclassical aesthetics...

An Essay on Criticism was designed, though, to make a splash. In it, Pope takes on both his fellow poets and the critical establishment, offering his own argument about what both groups ought to be doing, a manifesto for poetry in what was still a new century.

"An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope is a philosophical poem written in the early 18th century, a time marked by the Enlightenment. This work is largely a reflection on the nature of poetry and the principles of literary criticism, articulating what constitutes good writing and good judgment.

Alexander Pope’s long three-part poem “An Essay on Criticism” is largely influenced by ancient poets, classical models of art, and Pope’s own Catholic beliefs. The poem revolves around ...