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An Essay on Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Essay on Man/Essay on Woman - UK Parliament Living Heritage; An introduction to the poem from a Hartwicke College professor; Pope—Essay on Man—complete text; Selected Poetry of Alexander Pope, Representative Poetry Online, hosted by University of Toronto Libraries
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays were published between 1731 and 1735. Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope, published between 1731 and 1735.
Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution. His father (Alexander Pope, 1646–1717) was a successful linen merchant in the Strand , London . His mother, Edith (née Turner, 1643–1733), was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York .
Frontispiece. An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
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February 20 – The first epistle of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man is published anonymously. [1] March 29 – The second epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. [1] May – Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet. May 8 – The third epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. [1]
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The Poems of Alexander Pope (a one-volume edition of the Twickenham text ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 0300003404. OCLC 855720858. John Wesley, "Thoughts on the Character and Writings of Mr. Prior" and "Journals" in Wesley's Works as given in "The Master Christian Library" v. 8 (by Ages Software). Maynard Mack, Alexander Pope: A Life.