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Deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for, and to reverse, over 200 years of deformation and trivialisation of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers and historians of ideas. Solomon calls for a naturalisation of philosophical poetry as a remedy.

The Rape of the Text Reading and Misreading Popes

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      Publisher The University of Alabama Press
      Published 9/30/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780817306960
      978-0817306960
      ISBN-10 081730696X
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      Literary studies: general Literary studies: poetry and poets History of ideas

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      Book Synopsis
      Deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for, and to reverse, over 200 years of deformation and trivialisation of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers and historians of ideas. Solomon calls for a naturalisation of philosophical poetry as a remedy.

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