... 's influence both at the time of publishing and today, lies in his stellar presentation of the didactic argument, an expertise that places his "Appeal" in the same category of Milton's "Paradise Lost," Pope's "Essay on Man" and other great works of didactic literature. According to M. H. Abraham's A Glossary of Literary Terms adherents to the school of didactic literature follow certain conventions: "[The work ... ...

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