#anessayoncriticism

[amlitlover]

To err is human, to forgive divine

"To err is human; to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope, most often author quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, second only to William Shakespeare. https://americanliterature.com/author/alexander-pope/poem/an-essay-on-criticism

[paradiselostix]

«To err is human; to forgive, divine.» (from An Essay on Criticism, Part II) ~ «Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.» (from The Rape of the Lock, Canto V) ~ #BornOnThisDay: #AlexanderPope (1688-1744), English poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, considered by many as the most central figure of the neoclassical English movement in the 18th-century English literature, best known for his renowned mock-epic The Rape of the Lock, his other satirical verse, his translation of Homer and for his masterful use of the heroic couplet. ~ Best-known works: • An Essay on Criticism (1711, didactic poem) • The Rape of the Lock (1712-14, mock-epic) • An Essay on Man (1733-34, long philosophical poem) • The Dunciad (1728/43, mock-epic) ~ «Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.» (from the letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue, September 1725) ~ #birthday #TheRapeoftheLock #AnEssayonCriticism #AnEssayonMan #Dunciad #TheDunciad #RapeoftheLock #mockheroic #mockepic #Pope #satire #book #books #bookstagram #bibliophile #reading #booklove #bookoftheday #instabook #literature #bookclub #booktube #bookworm #classics #epicreads #epic #poet #poetry https://www.instagram.com/p/BxthAJFA-kf/?igshid=1kff22giyyahj

[2waysofart]

To err is human.

Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism