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Alexander Pope

Essay on Man

Epistle I: Nature-State of Man, with Respect to the Universe


[1733-1734] Alexander Pope, "Epistle I—Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe," An Essay on Man in Four Epistles[First Published: 1733-1734] in English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray, vol. XL in The Harvard Classics (New York, 1909-14; Online at Bartleby.com, 2001).

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy reason would he skip and play?
Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. (Lines 81-4)

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. (Lines 117-8)

Animal Rights History Timeline: Enlightenment [1660-1785]

Restoration [1660-1689]
Augustan-Age of Pope [1689-1745]
Age of Sensibility [1745-1785]


Animal Rights History-Timeline

[1688-1744] Alexander Pope

[1713] Against Barbarity to Animals Guardian No.61
[1713] Windsor Forest
[1733-1734] Essay on Man
Epistle I: Nature and State of Man with Respect to the Universe
Epistle III: Nature and State of Man with Respect to Society
Epistle IV: Nature and State of Man with Respect to Happiness
[1744] John Spence, Conversation with Alexander Pope
Biography-Commentary-Review
James Leigh Hunt, Imaginary Conversation of Pope on Cruelty to Animals (1825)

Alexander Pope



Animal Rights History Timeline: Enlightenment [1660-1785]

Restoration [1660-1689]
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Age of Sensibility [1745-1785]


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