In which I compare Austen’s Marianne and Willoughby to Dante’s Paulo and Francesca.
Tag Archives: Essay on Man
Eternally Damned after Reading a Book
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Pope Foresaw GOP Capitulation to Trump
Alexander Pope warned, in “Essay on Man” that vice loses its ugliness once it becomes familiar. This is the danger we face with the normalization of Donald Trump.
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Hope Springs Eternal in the NFL Draft
The NFL draft perfectly exemplifies Alexander Pope’s passage about hope.
