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An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires

An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires

Pope, Alexander

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ISBN10: 1721871055
ISBN13: 9781721871056
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2018
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope, 1891. 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, a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will justify the ways of God to men. Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George I. he was chiefly a translator, and made much money by satisfying the French-classical taste with versions of the Iliad and Odyssey. Under George I. he also edited Shakespeare, but with little profit to himself; for Shakespeare was but a Philistine in the eyes of the French-classical critics. But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted men's attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan. As Pope's genius ripened, the best part of the world in which he worked was pressing forward, as a mariner who will no longer hug the coast but crowds all sail to cross the storms of a wide unknown sea.

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