The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is

included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a

An Essay on Ctiricism
full and exact idea of the art of poetical criticism without
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entering into the consideration of the art of poetry.

Accordingly Pope has interwoven the precepts of both
throughout the poem which might more properly have been
styled an essay on the Art of Criticism and of Poetry. -
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An Essay on Criticism

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