""Like Socrates": Pope's Art of Dying"

Abstract

Morris Brownell explained the nature and significance of Alexander Pope's death in order to exemplify the 18th century art of dying.

Pope imitated Socrates's way of dying,[...] sanctioned by Pope's Catholic mentor, Erasmus,and acknowledged by all his friends [...] Pope's act of dying fit in the line of past and contemporary moral, philosophical and religious considerations

""Like Socrates": Pope's Art of Dying". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 20(3), 407-429.