Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend
- DMI number:
- 30102
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend
- Last Line:
- The heart and all its end at once attains
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend
- Last Line:
- And rise to faults true critics dare not mend
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
Related People
Related Poems
Content/Publication