An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY THIS EDITION PUBLISHED 1906 PREFACE It has been the aim of the editor in prep...

Alexander Pope

Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked.

Alexander Pope

* * * * * This eminent English poet was born in London, May 21, 1688.

Alexander Pope

_With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes_, BY THE REV.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.