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Essay on Criticism

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Essay on Criticism
didactic poem on rules by which a critic should be guided. [Br. Lit.: Pope Essay on Criticism in Magill IV, 287]
See : Criticism
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In An essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope (1711) said, "To err is human, to forgive, divine".
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Pope's Essay on Criticism insists "a critic should not judge a work simply by its parts, but should judge the whole, entirety of the work.
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