Alexander Pope Books

An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human, to forgive divine," "A little learning i..

An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope

Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being. Each of the poem’s four Epistles take..