会计学 1 AnEssayonCriticismAlexanderPope亚历山大蒲柏 第一页，编辑于星期五：十九点 四十四分。 Alexander Pope （1688----1744） Pope was an outstanding enlightener and the greatest English poet of the classical school in the first half of the 18th century. He was a master in the art of poetry and was certainly the greatest in his stage. It was Pope that carried heroic couplet to its last stage of perfection. 第1页/共15页 第二页，编辑于星期五：十九点 四十四分。 Major Works An Essay on Criticism 《批评论》 An Essay on Man 《人论》 The Dunciad 《愚人志》 The Rape of the Lock 《夺发记》 An Heroic-Comical Poem 第2页/共15页 第三页，编辑于星期五：十九点 四十四分。 Works 1705, Pastorals《田园诗集》 1711, An Essay on Criticism《批评论》 The Rape of the Lock《夺发记》 (two cantos, 1712; five cantos, 1714) （An Heroi-Comical Poem 英雄滑稽诗 ） 1713, Windsor-Forest《温莎林》 1728, The Dunciad 《愚人志》 1731-1735, Moral Essays《道德论》 1734, An Essay on Man《人论》 1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 《与阿布斯诺博士书》 The translations of Homer’s Iliad 《伊利亚特》and Odyssey《奥德赛》(poet laureate) The edition of Shakespeare’s plays. 第3页/共15页 第四页，编辑于星期五：十九点 四十四分。 An Essay on Criticism An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by Alexander Pope. It is a didactic poem written in heroic couplets. It consists of 744 lines and is divided into three parts. It is primarily concerned with how writers and critics behave in the new literary commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The poem covers a range of good criticism and advice. It also represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age. 第4页/共15页 第五页，编辑于星期五：十九点 四十四分。 01 General qualities needed by the critic (1-200) The poet first laments the dearth of true taste in poetic criticism of his day and calls on people to turn to the old Greek and Roman writers for guidance. 03 The ideal character of the critic (506-744) At the end of the poem, he also traces the history of literary criticism from Aristotle down to Boileau and Roscommon. 02 Paticular laws for the critic (201-5
