A little learning is a dangerous thing
- DMI number:
- 30190
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A little learning is a dangerous thing
- Last Line:
- New distant scenes of endless science rise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Education and Nature
- Composer:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Last Line:
- Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Learning
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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