" This poem discounts the importance of renown by calling Bacon the "wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind" and asserting that Cromwell is "damned to everlasting fame.
One section of this poem imagines that men with preternatural senses of smell and hearing would "die of a rose in aromatic pain" or wish they could only hear "the whispering Zephyr, and the purling rill." This poem discounts the importance of renown by calling Bacon the "wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind" and asserting that Cromwell is "damned to everlasting fame." This poem praises a "poor Indian" whose "faithful dog" will guide him to a heaven where "No Fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold!" This poem argues that "all are but (*) parts in one stupendous whole" in advising its subject not to break a "vast chain of being, which from God began." This poem advises its addressee, Lord Bolingbroke, to "know thyself, presume not God to scan," and is the source of the line "hope springs eternal in the human breast." For 10 points, name this poem in four epistles, written to "vindicate the ways of God to man" by Alexander Pope.
One section of this poem imagines that men with preternatural senses of smell and hearing would "die of a rose in aromatic pain" or wish they could only hear "the whispering Zephyr, and the purling rill.
"An Essay on Man"