Classic to Modern English Literature

                                                      Details Of Essay on Criticism Introduction : 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 eighteenth-century poetry, deriv

                                              The Wretched of the Earth – On National Culture This chapter, Fanon says, is concerned with legitimacy, and it has little to do with political parties. Colonialism was not content to merely exploit and abuse the people, the colonial power stripped the indigenous people of culture and history as well. The result was like a “ hammer to the head of the indigenous population .”   The quest of the colonized intellectual to reclaim the past is not a national endeavour. It is done on a “ continental scale .” The colonized intellectual’s attempt to right this wrong must then be continental, too, and they embrace African, or “ Negro ,” culture. As colonialism places white culture opposite other “ noncultures ,” “Negro ” culture, especially “ Negro ” literature, must encompass the entire continent. “Negro” literature, Fanon says, is an example of negritude, and its writers do not hesitate to go beyond the continent of Africa. Negritude has st

Q : Critically explain the Wit and Nature of Pope ’s “Esssay on Criticism. ” 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 criticism of nature and wit often explores how natural elements and human intellect are portrayed and judged in literature or philosophy. It critiques the balance between the raw beauty of nature and the sophisticated, sometimes flawed, expressions of wit, emphasizing their respective roles in shaping human experience and understanding. " Nature " and "Wit," and by which he projects, if not a unified critical argument, a unified