Author: Dan Amor

In his seminal poem, ‘An Essay On Man’ (1734), Alexander Pope, easily the most celebrated poet of eighteenth century England, ventures into a poetic realization of a disturbing irony. In the poem whose most ambitious epistle is the first, Pope clearly states that his primary task is to describe man’s place in the “universal system” and to “vindicate the ways of God to man”. In his prefatory remark, Pope more categorically justifies his intention to examine “man in the abstract, his Nature and his State, since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the…

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