'A little learning is a dangerous thing'- a quotation from

• 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' is a quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope.• An Essay on Criticism - কবিতাটি হচ্ছে একটি didactic poem in heroic couplets.- ১৭১১ সালে কবির ২২ বছর বয়সে এই কবিতাটি anonymously প্রকাশিত হয়।- Although inspired by Horace’s Ars poetica, this work of literary criticism borrowed from the writers of the Augustan Age.- In it Pope set out poetic rules, a Neoclassical compendium of maxims, with a combination of ambitious argument and great stylistic assurance. The poem received much attention and brought Pope a wider circle of friends, notably Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, who were then collaborating on The Spectator. • Famous quotes from An Essay on Criticism:- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.- To err is human; to forgive, divine.- An honest man is the noblest work of God.- A little learning is a dangerous thing.- Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. • Alexander Pope- He is the most famous poet of - The Augustan Age.- The Augustan age is also known/called as the Age of Pope.- কারন এই যুগে অন্যতম সাহিত্যিক ছিলেন Alexander Pope যিনি এই যুগে তাঁর লেখনীর দ্বারা আধিপত্য বিস্তার করেছিলেন।- তিনি একজন Mock Heroic Poet হিসাবেও পরিচিত। • Alexander Pope রচিত সাহিত্য কর্মের মধ্যে রয়েছে - -The Rape of the Lock (Famous Mock-Heroic poem),- Duncan,- The Dunciad (poem) (major work of mock-heroic verse),- The New Dunciad (poem),- Windsor-Forest(poem),- An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (poem),- An Essay on Criticism (poem),- An Essay on Man (poem),- Eloisa to Abelard (poem),- Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington (essay),- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, etc. Source: Website Lecture, Britannica and An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.