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[[File:Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|[[Alexander Pope]]]]

[[File:Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|[[Alexander Pope]]]]

'''''An Essay on Criticism''''' (1711) is a remarkable [[poem]] written by the extraordinary [[British]] poet [[Alexander Pope]], at the age of only 21 and published to tremendous acclaimed when he was only 23.  This poem is 744 lines long, and was named "Poem of the Week" by the ''[[Guardian (UK)|Guardian]]'' in 2013 with this praise:

'''''An Essay on Criticism''''' (1711) is a remarkable [[poem]] written by the extraordinary [[British]] poet [[Alexander Pope]], at the age of only 21 and published to tremendous acclaimed when he was only 23.  This poem is 744 lines long, and was named "Poem of the Week" by the ''[[Guardian (UK)|Guardian]]'' in 2013 with this praise:

{{cquote|Deployed in his sparkling heroic couplets, the arguments and summaries are alive with wit, verbal agility and good sense. From his neoclassical scaffolding, he looks outwards to the literary marketplace of his own age.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jul/08/literary-criticism-poetry</ref>}}

{{cquote|Deployed in his sparkling heroic couplets, the arguments and summaries are alive with wit, verbal agility and good sense. From his [[neoclassical]] scaffolding, he looks outwards to the literary marketplace of his own age.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jul/08/literary-criticism-poetry</ref>}}

This poem contains three fabulous and very famous lines:

This poem contains three fabulous and very famous lines: