In one poem, this man asked "Why has not man a microscopic eye?" and answered "For this plain reason, - man is not a fly".
In one poem, this man asked "Why has not man a microscopic eye?" and answered "For this plain reason, - man is not a fly". In another of his poems, a bag of "sighs, sobs, and passions" and a vial of "soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears" are poured on Thalestris and another woman. This author asked "Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel?" in his "Epistle to (*) Dr. Arbuthnot". One of his poems describes how "Hope springs eternal from the human breast" and claims that"the proper study of Mankind is Man". The gnome Umbriel visits the Cave of Spleen in a mock-heroic poem by this author in which the Baron steals the title object from Belinda. For 10 points, name this English satirist who wrote An Essay on Man and "The Rape of the Lock".
In one poem, this man asked "Why has not man a microscopic eye?" and answered "For this plain reason, - man is not a fly".
Alexander Pope