An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope today in Rumpus Books.
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Posts Tagged: Alexander Pope
Too Many Books
…it’s hard not to feel that we are in an era of massive overproduction. Just when we were already overwhelmed with paper books, often setting them aside after only a few pages in anxious search of something more satisfying, along came the Internet and the e-book so that, wonderfully, we now have access to hundreds […]
...moreIs the Internet A Modern-Day “Dunciad”?
And so it proved, as music website after music website soon reported on the Gordon-Moore breakup in exactly those sort of exclamatory tones, completely ignoring the fact that the article focused on Gordon as a modern feminist hero rather than an abandoned wife. At the Quietus, Paul Tucker examines the reaction to Elle‘s profile of Kim […]
...moreThe Death (and Rebirth?) of the Book Review
Why review books? At The Awl, Jane Hu takes a historical approach to answering that question. Quoting writers from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Franzen, Hu argues that the apparently ever-progressing “death” of the book review is perhaps a more nuanced process than it first appears: “Perhaps a large problem in the decline of good criticism […]
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