Interest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized
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An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). It is wr