An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope

116 pages first pub 1734 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy poetry tense slow-paced
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Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspir...

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