First class on Pope, 10/19/10

An introductory class on Pope, in particular the Essay on Criticism.  Pope's poetic mode compared to Dryden's.  Some account of Pope's effects in the essay.  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.  Pope's own critical theories and his holism.