{"product_id":"the-works-of-alexander-pope-von-alexander-pope","title":"THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof them, are generally not a little unreasonable in their expectations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first seem to fancy that the world must approve whatever they \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproduce, and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem at any rate. Methinks, as on the one hand, no single man is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eborn with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest; so on the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother, the world has no title to demand, that the whole care and time \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof any particular person should be sacrificed to its entertainment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eequal obligations for as much fame, or pleasure, as each affords the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery one acknowledges, it would be a wild notion to expect \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperfection in any work of man: and yet one would think the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtrary was taken for granted, by the judgment commonly passed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eupon poems. A critic supposes he has done his part if he proves a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriter to have failed in an expression, or erred in any particular \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoint: and can it then be wondered at if the poets in general seem \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresolved not to own themselves in any error? For as long as one side \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill make no allowances, the other will be brought to no \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041986163\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn In-depth Exploration of Alexander Pope's Works and Correspondence\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041986163","offer_id":48221840408901,"sku":"9791041986163","price":24.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/0cfbd250-2f7b-4115-ae97-ceb2c703eb64.jpg?v=1765609890","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-works-of-alexander-pope-von-alexander-pope","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}