Essay on Man
Author: first_name: Alexander
last_name: Pope
Language: English
Year: 1733

Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.<br /><br />

Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in relation to the universe, as individual, in society and, finally, tracing his prospects for achieving the goal of happiness.<br /><br />

In choosing stately rhyming couplets to explore his theme, Pope sometimes becomes obscure through compre