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Robert Dodsley (17031764) started life humbly for a man destined to become his century s premier bookseller and publisher. He began as an apprentice weaver and developed into a poet and playwright. He served as protege, publisher, or patron of Pope, Johnson, Fielding, Richardson, Voltaire, Rousseau, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edward Young, Joseph and Thomas Warton, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Percy, Edmund Burke, and others. Virtually all significant mid-century English writers had some connection with Dodsley or...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4First published in 1733-1734, "An Essay on Man," Alexander Pope s best-known philosophical poem, was highly praised by many of Pope s European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness.Voltaire called "An Essay on Man" the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of...