ALEXANDER POPE—Edith Sitwell—Cosmopolitan ($4). Says Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: “I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: ‘Had I been born early enough, ...

English poet and satirist Alexander Pope once said, "To err is human; to forgive, divine." The executives at YouTube seem to ...

THE time is long past when Alexander Pope was identified with his least impressive verse, and having been the eighteenth century’s supreme English poet, was adjudged in the nineteenth no poet at all.

I saw two abbreviated footages of a Senate legislative investigation on the now infamous “flood control projects scandal.” While I was listening attentively to a senator engaged in a rather animated ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite the ubiquity of the usage, it was not always so: John Dryden and Alexander Pope did not speak of a poet’s ...