Classic to Modern English Literature

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer,   Alexander Pope(1688–1744), published in 1711 when the author was 22 years old. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread". The first fragmentary drafts of the work were written in Abberley in 1707. Composed in heroic couplets (pairs of adjacent rhyming lines of iambic pentameter) and written in the Horatian mode of satire, it is a verse essay primarily concerned with how writers and critics behave in the new literary commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The verse "essay" was not an uncommon form in the eighteenth-century poetry, deriving ultimately from classical forebears including Horace's Ars Poetica and Lucretius' De rerum Natura. Th

On the Sublime (Latin: De Sublimitate ) is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century C.E. Its author is unknown, but it is conventionally referred to as Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus.   The author is unknown. In the 10th-century reference manuscript ( Parisinus Graecus 2036 ), the heading reports "Dionysius or Longinus," an ascription by the medieval copyist that was misread as " by Dionysius Longinus ." The work was initially attributed to Cassius Longinus (c. 213–273 AD). Since the correct translation includes the possibility of an author named " Dionysius ," some have attributed the work to Dionysius of Halicarnassus , a writer of the 1st century BC.   Among further names proposed are Hermagoras of Temnos (a rhetorician who lived in Rome during the 1st century AD), Aelius Theon (author of a work which had many ideas in common with those of On the Sublime ), and Pompeius Geminus (who was in epistolary conversati

                                            Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Western Feminism: " Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses " is an essay that addresses how Western feminist scholars characterize women of the third world as a single cohesive group. Mohanty further explains that grouping all third-world women together is not an effective way to tackle problems or create change. " Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses " is an academic essay written from the third-person point of view by feminist scholar Chandra Talpade Mohanty . She explains that she is not against the practice of generalization altogether because it is necessary to conduct studies. She says, " The assumption of women as a ... coherent group with identical interests and desires, regardless of class, ethnic or racial location or contradictions, implies a notion of gender or sexual difference.”  Mohanty gives an