An Essay on Man / / Alexander Pope; Tom Jones.
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 inspiration from it in their writings. This was A...
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Pope, Alexander, author. An Essay on Man / Alexander Pope; Tom Jones. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS -- INTRODUCTION -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- AN ESSAY ON MAN -- POPE'S KNOWLEDGE OF AUTHORS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX 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 inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication.Echoing Milton's purpose in Paradise Lost, Pope says his aim in An Essay on Man is to "vindicate the ways of God to man"-to explain the existence of evil and explore man's place in the universe. In a comprehensive introduction, Tom Jones describes the poem as an investigation of the fundamental question of how people should behave in a world they experience as chaotic, but which they suspect to be orderly from some higher point of view. The introduction provides a thorough discussion of the poem's attitudes, themes, composition, context, and reception, and reassesses the work's place in history. Extensive annotations to the text explain references and allusions.The result is the most accessible, informative, and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Human beings Poetry. Philosophy, English 18th century Poetry. POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Jones, Tom, editor. Jones, Tom. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016 9783110638592 print 9780691159812 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880447?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400880447.jpg |
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