Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1707 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"True Wit Is Nature to Advantage Dress'd"
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The idea
Pope defines true wit as nature to advantage dressed, what was often thought but never so well expressed. Wit here is unit three's sense, inventive intelligence rather than humour, and the definition is an argument about what writing is for.
In practice
Nature, well dressed.
Where people slip
Wit means intelligence, per unit three.
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