POPE AS A CRITIC—ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS

BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 18^th CENTURY –Blamiers

The Eighteenth Century I: The Age of Addison and Pope

M. Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—

Approaches--Unit II

Additional critical materials for students of M.Phil (English)

S. SREEKUMAR

POPE AS A CRITIC—ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS

[Teachers of MPhil classes are advised to provide additional learning materials for their scholars as the materials from the text books are not sufficient for a clear estimate of the critic concerned]

ALEXANDER POPE

As a critic Pope is remembered more for his Essay on Criticism than for his other critical writings—Preface to the Works of Shakespeare, Imitation of the Epistles of Horace to Augustus & Preface to the Translation of the Iliad.

ADDISON AS A CRITIC—ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS

BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 18^th CENTURY –Blamiers

The Eighteenth Century I: The Age of Addison and Pope

M. Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—

Approaches--Unit II

Additional critical materials for students of M.Phil (English)

S.Sreekumar 

ADDISON AS A CRITIC—ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS

[Teachers of MPhil classes are advised to provide additional learning materials for their scholars as the materials from the text books are not sufficient for a clear estimate of the critic concerned]

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)

Addison’s critical papers appeared mostly in the SPECTATOR.

His aim was to bring ‘philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffee houses’. Thus, Addison’s writings were not for the learned people but for the common man. This gave a new turn to English Criticism.

The Eighteenth Century I: The Age of Addison and Pope, Blamiers— Approaches--Unit II

BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 18^th CENTURY –Blamiers

M. Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—

Approaches--Unit II

Summary by Dr. S. Sreekumar

The Eighteenth Century I: The Age of Addison and Pope

Introduction

·        The 18^th century was a period of calm and prosperity in England. Industry and commerce were rapidly expanding. Agriculture and sheep farming also showed much progress in this century.