Who wrote, “To err is human, to forgive divine”?
Alexander Pope’s expression of charity, “To err is human, to forgive divine” appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).
Alexander Pope’s expression of charity, “To err is human, to forgive divine” appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).
There are 24 Canterbury Tales. In the order accepted in standard texts, they are: Knight’s Tale Miller’s Tale Reeve’s Tale Cook’s Tale Man of Law’s Tale Wife of Bath’s Tale Friar’s Tale Summoner’s Tale Clerk’s Tale Merchant’s Tale Squire’s Tale Franklin’s Tale Physician’s Tale Pardoner’s Tale Shipman’s Tale Prioress’s Tale Tale of Sir Thopas Tale…
The source of the title The Catcher in the Rye is a reference to Robert Burns’s poem “Comin’ Through the Rye” (1792), which Holden Caulfield quotes.
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his critical treatise Biographia Literaria (1817). Coleridge used the term to refer to the “poetic faith” of a reader in accepting imaginary elements in a literary work.
The Dr. Seuss book that has sold the most copies is Green Eggs and Ham, published in 1960, it has sold over 6 million copies. Another 1960 book, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, has sold nearly as many.
In Don Marquis’s “archy and mehitabel” stories, Archy is the cockroach, Mehitabel the cat. Archy was said to have written the stories at night on newspaper columnist Marquis’s typewriter. He wrote without capitals because he couldn’t reach the shift key. The stories were first collected in archy and mehitabel (1927).