for and in various works. Critical reception An Essay on Criticism was famously and fiercely attacked by John Dennis, who is mentioned mockingly in the work. Consequently, Dennis also appears in Pope's later satire, The Dunciad. Thomas Rymer, and Jonathan Swift were among other critics: Rymer, who had the strongest critique said, "till of late years England was as free from critics as it is from wolves...they who are least acquainted with the game are aptest to bark at everything that comes in their way."; Swift's statement concentrated on critics who were damned "as barbarous as a judge who should take up a resolution to hang all men that came before him upon trial." Notes References External links An Essay on Criticism at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) (much punctuation is missing) A Study Guide for the Essay, by Walter Jackson Bate British poems Works by Alexander Pope 1711 poems