Fri. 12:06 – Leigh and P. T. survey Epistle 1 of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. The poem was dedicated to the disgraced Lord Bolingbroke, and some say his ideas inspired Pope. 08/07/2020.
Pope attempts to connect God and natural law to human affairs. Is he right or as Houseman says, “beer does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man”? Leigh and P. T. look into the matter.