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An Essay on Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Essay on Man/Essay on Woman - UK Parliament Living Heritage; An introduction to the poem from a Hartwicke College professor; Pope—Essay on Man—complete text; Selected Poetry of Alexander Pope, Representative Poetry Online, hosted by University of Toronto Libraries
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays were published between 1731 and 1735. Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope, published between 1731 and 1735.
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, ... An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets published between 1732 and ...
January 1 – The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer is launched by Edward Cave in London.; July – Alexander Pope completes the original writing of his poem An Essay on Man with the first two "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (1) "The Universe" and (2) "Himself as an Individual".
Either in quest of paradox, or unable to recognise the real tendencies of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, Warburton defended it against the Examen of Jean Pierre de Crousaz through a series of articles he contributed to The Works of the Learned in 1738–9.
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The phrase what is, is right coined by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man, and Leibniz' affirmation we live in the best of all possible worlds, provoked Voltaire's scorn. He railed against what he perceived as intricate but empty philosophizing which served only to demean humanity and ultimately lead to fatalism. [citation needed]