RE: The Similarities Between Addison and Burke

Hi Fred –

I like your insight about pleasures being natural or manmade, and that the former are closer to God. I thought it was interesting how much Burke’s view of taste is similar to Addison’s pleasures of the imagination, particularly in regards to nature. To me,

RE: “Answer to Discussion question on Pope”

Hi Bridget –

I like your insight about the comical and ironic nature of Pope’s Essay. I enjoyed lines 344-57 when he is describing a dull church hymn, particularly his descriptions of the predictable, boring rhymes [351-55]: