Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” sums up the art of poetry as taught first by :

Horace is the proposed response because Essay on Criticism belongs to the tradition of verse instruction and judgment associated with Ars Poetica. Aristotle, however, precedes Horace historically and is also important to classical poetics, making “taught first” imprecise. Longinus and Plato supply different emphases. Exact intended attribution requires later review.