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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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Essay on Man
• Author: Alexander Pope
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780691181059
• ISBN: 9780691181059
• ID: 18210204
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 128 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2018

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