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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. (The Rape of the Lock. An Essay On Criticism))

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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. (The Rape of the Lock. An Essay On Criticism))

By Alexander Pope


Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' is, of course, one of the most famous satirical poems in English; it tells the story of the theft of a lock of Belinda’s (Arabella Fermor’s) hair, as well as the aftermath of the theft, and constitutes the perfection of the ‘mock-epic’ style. The allus…

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Early Modern18th centuryAugustanEnglish PoetryEnglish LiteraturePoetryLiteratureThe Rape of the LockJohn GayWilliam BroomeEdmund SmithElijah FentonThomas BettertonJohn DrydenJohn BarretOvidius Publius NasoMatthew PriorStatiusOvidElisha KirkauFirst EditionsCanonical First EditionsLatin OriginalEnglish Translation


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