Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1749 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Famous Line
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The idea
Pope and Tennyson are both heavily quoted, and units fourteen and fifteen found that famous lines are misremembered. A little learning is a dangerous thing is regularly quoted as a little knowledge, which is not what Pope wrote.
In practice
The quotation is often misquoted.
Where people slip
Learning, not knowledge.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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