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An Essay on Man
Alexander Pope
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Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic inquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.
Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in relation to the universe, as individual, in society and, finally, tracing his prospects for achieving the goal of happiness.
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic inquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.
Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in relation to the universe, as individual, in society and, finally, tracing his prospects for achieving the goal of happiness.
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A prince the father of a people made.
VI. Till then, by Nature crowned, each patriarch
sate,
King, priest, and parent of his growing state;
On him, their second providence, they hung,
Their law his eye, their oracle his tongue.
He from the wondering furrow called the food,
Taught to command the fire, control the flood,
Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound,
Or fetch the aërial eagle to the ground.
Till drooping, sickening, dying they began
Whom they revered as God to mourn as man:
Then, looking up, from sire to sire, explored
One great first Father, and that first adored.
Or plain tradition that this all begun,
Conveyed unbroken faith from sire to son;
The worker from the work distinct was known,
And simple reason never sought but one:
Ere wit oblique had broke that steady light,
Man, like his. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Cassirer sets out with an ambitious project: to show how mythology, religion, art, natural science, and history are all equally expressions of the symbol-making capacity unique to humans. Unfortunately his execution of this is sloppy and consists of stringing together many non-original ideas and obs
I've heard someone say his thought is unoriginal. I know nothing about that. This book is a mind-expander on too many levels. A must read for anyone concerned with language and art.
Another English Lit class find.
This was wasn't exciting and I remember nothing from it.
What an exquisite philosophical poetry ! ! ! !
It is the best philosophy in poetic version and Every word has immense meaning so deeply around various topics but merely comprehend basics of man and their surroundings.
Intensely and supremely knitted in blossoming beauty of poetry.
Some of Greatest li
Best book ever.
Overall, I agree with Samuel Johnson’s view on Pope’s An Essay on Man:
“The Essay on Man was a work of great labour and long consideration, but certainly not the happiest of Pope's performances. The subject is perhaps not very proper for poetry, and the poet was not sufficiently master of his subjec
Pope’s Essay on Man, ironically enough, is not exactly an essay, and it’s not exactly on Man; It’s rather in verse, which might be considered as an attempt to reduce the considerable amount of yawning which happens during reading it, an attempt doomed to failure-at least by universal consensus. Also