• Alexander Pope wrote '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. - 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 the Pope. - কারণ 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), - 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: Britannica and An ABC d English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.