Alexander Pope Quotes
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Topics
Ignorance
Intelligence
Misinformation
Erudition
Illiteracy, Illiterates
Lumber
Pompousness
Unintelligent
Uninformed
Uneducated
Pretension, Pretensions
Intelligence (Spying, Espionage)
Bookishness
False Knowledge
Intellectual Arrogance
Learned Ignorance
Misguided Learning
Pretentiousness
Unenlightened
Citations
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Criticism. W. Lewis, 1711, p. 20.
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Alexander Pope is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having become popular in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.