A last, make-up class, notionally on the Essay on Man.\xa0 Reconsideration of the heroic couplet after Smart, Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge.\xa0 Philosophical poetry and a return to the question of the sublime.\xa0 Kantian idea of purposiveness without purpose in the well-ordered beautiful, and the contra-finality of the sublime: relation between the early and late eighteenth century as the sublime becomes of greater and greater interest.\xa0\xa0 Some final observations about the brilliance of Pope's versification.