An Essay on Man By More By: Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man By More By: Alexander PopeVoltaire 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 (173334), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the

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