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Alexander Pope;Biographical Information;Historical Background;Life Experience;At sixteen, has already written the his Pastorals During his early period, first associated with Addison In 1713 became a member of the “Scriblerus Club” Spent nearly a decade translating Homer’s Greek into English heroic couplets Self-made and self-support by writing Numerous quarrels with other literary men which lead to a big number of satires Unmarried throughout his life Died at Twickenham on May 30, 1744 ;Illness;Politics;1711 An Essay on Criticism 1713 Windsor Forest 1714 Rape of the Lock 1715-1720 Translated the Iliad 1725-1726 Translated the Odyssey 1728 The Dunciad 1734 An Essay on Man 1735 Epistle to Doctor Arbuthnot;An Essay on Criticism;Windsor Forest;Rape of the Lock ;The Dunciad;An Essay on Man;4 Epistles;Epistle to Doctor Arbuthnot;Essay on Criticism ;The theme or the main idea:; There are total 47 paragraphs in the whole poem. Here Three paragraphs are selected. ;Tis hard to say, if greater Want of SkillAppear in Writing or in Judging ill,But, of the two, less dangrous is th Offence,To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense:Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;A Fool might once himself alone expose,Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose ;Main idea: This is the first paragraph in the poem here pope criticize the bad writing in his time directly and criticize some writers whose work classical rules. ;语言特点;With our Judgments as our Watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.In Poets as true Genius is but rare,True Taste as seldom is the Criticks Share;Both must alike from Heavn derive their Light,These born to Judge, as well as those to Write.Let such teach others who themselves excell,And censure freely who have written well.Authors are partial to their Wit, tis true,But are not Criticks to their Judgment too? ;Main idea;Notes: 如果想认真地进行外语写作，Pope的“论批评”就不可不读。以上选的是第一部分的前18行。Pope首先阐明，文学技巧的