An Essay on ManPrinceton University Press, 21. juni 2016 - 248 sider A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English language |
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... suggest not only that we may take both Pope's philosophy and his poetry seriously, but that his poem instantiates a poetic philosophy, one in which necessity emerges from contingency. The poem, that is, redescribes chance as direction ...
... suggests parallels between the conversational openings and the associated social assumptions of Locke's and Pope's Essays. 9 Harry M. Solomon, e Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's Essay on Man (Tuscaloosa: University of ...
... suggesting that the soul now rests in the idea of a better future state. The ambiguity of tense suggests that people already enjoy those blessings that are possible only in the next life. The poem captures complex, shifting attitudes in ...
... suggest when saying that “even as things are, all is well” (III.2, 17, p. 155; see notes for a longer citation). If readers like Voltaire and Rousseau tended to take Pope as saying that all is well (largely on account of the French ...
... suggests Cicero as the model for academic moderation in which steering between extreme positions is not regarded as inconsistency. The earlier part (pp. 1–56) of Solomon's book is given over to a proliferation of nontraditional contexts ...
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NOTE ON THE TEXT | cxvii |
AN ESSAY ON MAN | 1 |
POPES KNOWLEDGE OF AUTHORS CITED | 99 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 107 |
INDEX | 123 |