An Essay on Man

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Pope’s life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George I. he was chiefly a translator, and made much money by satisfying the French-classical taste with versions of the “Iliad” and “Odyssey. ” Under George I. he also edited Shakespeare, but with little profit to himself; for Shakespeare was but a Philistine in the e