First class on Pope, 10/19/10

Published: Oct. 21, 2010, 4:43 a.m.

An introductory class on Pope, in particular the Essay on Criticism.\xa0 Pope's poetic mode compared to Dryden's.\xa0 Some account of Pope's effects in the essay.\xa0 The difference between judgment and creation; and the similarities between them: how Virgil was a great critic of Homer and had to be in order to use Homer as the model for the Aeneid.\xa0 Pope's own critical theories and his holism.