ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He wants criticism to be guided by ‘those rules of old’ which ‘learned Greece’ discovered in human nature. Be Homer’s works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night. The same advice was given by Horace to the ‘would-be-writer’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alexander Pope (21 May 1688-30 May 1744) was an English poet, considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet. He is known for his writing style and satirical works, such as The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock and An Essay on Criticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Pope, (born May 21, 1688, London, England-died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London), poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34).

Detailed explanation-4: -Artist uses ‘heroic couplet’ (form) to express the heroic subject matter (content). Pope implies that if the artist needs to break rules and regulation, he should use poetic license.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mathew Arnold has called Pope as ‘classic in prose’.