The complete online text of An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope.

There was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed the Augustan Age or the Neoclassical period. Yet the earlier denomina...

There was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed the "Augustan Age" or the "Neoclassical Period." Yet the earlier deno...

Alexander Pope's prose, even when most intimate, bears directly or indirectly upon his poetry. Accordingly, his essays range from short pieces such as the defense of his pastoral poetry to the extended critical discussions that appear in his translations...

WITHIN WHAT ANTHONY HECHT CALLS "that domain of art" some have said say nothing Rabbi Irving Greenberg says say nothing that cannot/should not be said / that is not "credible in the presence of the burning children" / do they even exist or...

Death shadows, specters, the photograph, as it does the cinema. That this is the case for the photograph is now a common understanding. I will come back to it. As for the cinema, death is inscribed there from its very advent, including in...

The family of a freshman who was fatally shot at Edward Waters College the day after he wrote an essay criticizing campus safety has settled its lawsuit against the school, attorneys said.The $2.75 million wrongful death settlement, reached last month, also requires the college to...