Excerpt from The Works of Alexander Pope: In One Volume Complete, With Notes I am afraid this extreme zeal on both sides is ill-placed; poe try and criticism being by no means the universal concern of the world, but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets, and, of idle men who read there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.