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An Essay on Criticism By Pope

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Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 01:23 pm
Can anyone please help me understand what he is trying to say about learning in the poem?
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Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 02:06 pm
@star88,
This passage?

A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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