To Err Is Human (other)
To err is human may refer to: * "To err is human, to forgive divine" a quote from Alexander Pope's poem ''An Essay on Criticism'' * ''Errare humanum est'', a Latin proverb * To Err Is Human (report), ''To Err Is Human'' (report), a 1999 report on U.S. medical errors {{disambiguation ...
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To Err Is Human, To Forgive Divine
''An Essay on Criticism'' is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread". Composition The first fragmentary drafts of the work were written in Abberley in 1707. It was first published in May 1711. Many of the poem's ideas had existed in prose form since at least 1706. Composed in heroic couplets (pairs of adjacent rhyming lines of iambic pentameter) and written in the Satire#Horatian, Horatian mode of satire, it is a verse essay primarily concerned with how writers and critics behave in the new literary commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The poem covers a range of good criticism and advice, and represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age. Structure and themes Th ...
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