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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... verse paragraph of Claudian's poem, following on from the passage just quoted, is impressively severe. 3 Claudian's Rufinus: Or, the Court-Favourite's Overthrow, trans. by anon., 2nd ed. (London, 1730), pp. 1–2, xii, vii. See also ...
... Verse. Essay. The Essay is more inquisitive than expository: there is a real question to be addressed, and the philosophizing voice that produces this poem will make an inquiry into that question, rather than set out a solution already ...
... verse will not be categorically distinct from prose essays on any of these counts, though it may trust more to such resources. William Warburton indeed suggests that Pope has the “Art of converting Poetical Ornaments into Philosophic. 13 ...
... verse essay is more likely than its prose sisters to press its prosody upon its reader—its organization into lines of verse, determined by numbers of syllables and potential distributions of stress among them.15 (Even this ...
... verse.)16 In addition to the temporal unfolding of argument that one might call prosody in an extended sense, the more restricted sense of prosody will muster stress around lines of verse, and indeed verse paragraphs and epistles, in ...
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NOTE ON THE TEXT | cxvii |
AN ESSAY ON MAN | 1 |
POPES KNOWLEDGE OF AUTHORS CITED | 99 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 107 |
INDEX | 123 |