An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires

Другая поэзия, Философия

Автор: Pope Alexander

Язык: английский

Год: 1891

Издатель: Cassell & Company, Limited

Город: London, Paris, Melbourne

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Аннотация

Voltaire once said that “An Essay on Man” is “the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language” (later however, he renounced his admiration for it). 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 Alexander Pope’s masterpiece of philosophical poetry is 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.
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.

Introduced and edited by Henry Morley.