“Hope springs eternal in the human breast. (Original to Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
1734)
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 5: "The Romantic Reaction"
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