{"product_id":"an-essay-on-man-paperback","title":"An Essay on Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Pope\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoltaire called it \"the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.\" Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's \u003ci\u003eEssay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEchoing Milton's purpose in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Pope says his aim in \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is the most accessible, informative, and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a definitive, reader-friendly edition of a poem that ought to be circulated as widely as possible. The textual commentary is a model of its kind--lucid, full, rich in insight, and especially good at tracking down and elucidating the allusions in which the poem abounds. The introduction is also an exemplary piece of literary scholarship.\"\u003cb\u003e--Brian Young, Christ Church College, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tom Jones's edition of \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive achievement. His introduction and notes are deeply learned and useful. They synthesize much of what we know about the poem's composition, publication, sources, analogues, and influence, but also present fresh, original insights into its meanings and importance as a document of eighteenth-century intellectual history. The sophistication with which Jones treats the philosophical contexts of the poem is exceptional.\"\u003cb\u003e--James Noggle, Wellesley College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a very good edition. The lively and wide-ranging introduction is attentive to both the original context and continuing relevance of Pope's poem.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Womersley, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Jones\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711681466431,"sku":"9781981633401","price":12.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fc0f09a342ac944580f852637919faec.webp?v=1765059333","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/an-essay-on-man-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}