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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: essay on man
  name:
    name part: Pope, Alexander
    name part: 1688-1744
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Jones, Tom
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: cxviii, 130 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Voltaire 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 (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, 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. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication. 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. In a comprehensive introduction, Tom Jones describes the poem as an investigation of the fundamental question of how people should behave in a world they experience as chaotic, but which they suspect to be orderly from some higher point of view. The introduction provides a thorough discussion of the poem's attitudes, themes, composition, context and reception, and reassesses the work's place in history. Extensive annotations to the text explain references and allusions. The result is the most accessible, informative and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought.
  note: Alexander Pope ; edited with an introduction by Tom Jones.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-122) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, English
    temporal: 18th century
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: POETRY
    topic: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: General
  classification: PR3627.A2 J66 2016
  classification: 821/.5
  identifier: 9780691159812
  identifier: 0691159815
  identifier: 2015044289
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151110
    record change date: 20170927140459.0
    record identifier: in00003795956