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An Essay On Man: Moral Essays And Satires by Alexander Pope

An Essay On Man: Moral Essays And Satires

Alexander Pope

192 pages first pub 1734 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy poetry tense slow-paced
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An Essay on Man is a poem. hence the opening line: "Awake, St John...". 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 th...

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