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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... thought otherwise recommended it. We see it represents the Vanity of human Glory, in the false pursuits after Happiness: Where the Ridicule, in the Curtain-cobweb, the Death's-head crown'd with laurel, and the several Inscriptions on ...
... thought. Further, he writes a poem that passes for orthodoxy, even piety, in the terms of eighteenth-century British state religion, while not specifying the Christian revelation in the poem. Indeed, Pope evokes and transforms sources ...
... thought of the eighteenth century.” The debates that founded the individual states and their confederation often responded to Pope's assertion that only fools would contest for forms of government.1 Politicians continue to find ...
... thought that have emerged or are emerging in this ongoing confrontation. To take just one example, Pope is intrigued by the human-animal distinction, with all ranks in his great chain of being displaying different qualities, yet all ...
... Thought perplex'd my wav'ring Mind, If Heaven's great Gods gave heed to Human-kind, Or, no high Pow'r attending Things so low, Strange Random Chance rul'd ev'ry Change below. When my Mind's Eye did Nature's Leagues survey, The Flux. 2 ...
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NOTE ON THE TEXT | cxvii |
AN ESSAY ON MAN | 1 |
POPES KNOWLEDGE OF AUTHORS CITED | 99 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 107 |
INDEX | 123 |