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toggle_fow's review against another edition
5.0
This rating is just for Essay On Man, which I love. My kindle edition includes some other works from Pope, including his Horace satires, a poem to a lady (which concludes that "men some to business, some to pleasure take / but every woman is at heart a rake"), and what seems to be a poem about his dissatisfaction with the pretentious landscaping conventions of his day.
lawrenceevalyn's review against another edition
3.0
It's Pope, so it has all the expected Popian charms, but it's not Pope at his most endearing. I'm glad to have rounded out my knowledge of his oeuvre, but I like him better when he has a larger scope.
616ece's review against another edition
challenging
medium-paced
3.0
Studied it in a class. Tiring yet understandable. It would've been much easier if we didn't analyze it with iambic parameter etc. I liked the idea of 'Neoclassicism.' Pope just wants to ultimately raise the level of English language poetics to that of classical poetics.