ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alexader Pope’s A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing is a poem about youthful exuberance and aged wisdom. The poem seems to suggest that a small amount of education is dangerous and that to not deeply drink from the fountain of knowledge will cause intoxication.

Detailed explanation-3: -You may have heard the phrase, “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” It’s found in Alexander Pope’s poem An Essay on Criticism, composed in 1709.

Detailed explanation-4: -People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error. First said by Alexander Pope.