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The Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's Essay on Man

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“Clears away 250 years of debris, and this process of clarification allows us to begin seeing An Essay on Man as if for the first time.” —David B. Morris

Why has Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man—once hailed by Voltaire as “the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem”—fallen into neglect or been dismissed as a philosophical failure? In The Rape of the Text, Harry M. Solomon delivers a bold and necessary corrective to centuries of critical distortion. This groundbreaking study dis...