In a later edition a new book was added, deposing Theobald and elevating Colley Cibber to the throne of Dulness.

This was ill-advised, as the ridicule, which was justly applied to Theobald, is not applicable to Cibber.
ESSAY ON MAN .-- The intercourse of the poet with the gifted but sceptical Lord Bolingbroke is apparent in his _Essay on Man_, in which, with much that is orthodox and excellent, the principles and influence of his lordship are readily discerned.

The first part appeared in 1732, and the second some years later.

The opinion is no longer held that Bolingbroke wrote any part of the poem; he has only infected it.

It is one of Pope's best poems in versification and diction, and abounds with pithy proverbial sayings, which the English world has been using ever since as current money in conversational barter.