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Reviewed on May 15, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
Pope's poem An Essay on Man—formulated to "vindicate the ways of God to man"—was one of the most widely disseminated and well-known publications of the 18th century, notably impacting Enlightenment writers Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jones (English, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK; Poetic Language) provides a reliable modern versio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More