An Essay on Man
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 eyes of the French-classical critics. But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted men's attention from the cu…
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- ISBN: 978-3-7494-3734-4
- EAN: 9783749437344
- Produktnummer: 30715806
- Verlag: Books on Demand
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 179 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 337 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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