An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, 975 p.
Comprehensive treatment of Pope's life and career, placing his writings in the context of “feelings, personalities, and events which precipitated them.”
CRITICISM
Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. “Psychology” and “Religion and Metaphysics.” In The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope, pp. 139-59, 160-91. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Thematic study of contemporaneous psychological, religious, and metaphysical ideas that informed Pope's works, particularly focusing on An Essay on Man.
Griffin, Dustin H. “‘Ourselves To Know’: The Poet in An Essay on Man.” In Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems, pp. 127-64. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Posits that the self-expressive passages of An Essay on Man reveal Pope's...
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