Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend
- DMI number:
- 36479
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend
- Last Line:
- And rise to faults true critics dare not mend
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing and Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend
- Last Line:
- The heart and all its end at once attains
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. [T85619] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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