{"product_id":"an-essay-on-man-alexander-pope-9781981633401","title":"An Essay on Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eVoltaire 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 \u003ci\u003eEssay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEchoing Milton's purpose in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Pope says his aim in \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Pope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1981633405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781981633401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d","brand":"Alexander Pope","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991305912575,"sku":"9781981633401","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fa188b6-bc75-4bee-aa24-1616bfe4544e.jpg?v=1683309541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-essay-on-man-alexander-pope-9781981633401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}