An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope

An Essay On Man

Alexander Pope

188 pages first pub 1734 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy poetry tense slow-paced
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An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733-1734. It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justify...

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