The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems collects the major shorter works of Alexander Pope. The title poem, published in 1712 and enlarged in 1714, treats a quarrel between two families over a stolen lock of hair in the manner of Homer and Virgil, with sylphs for gods and a card game for a battle, and it is the finest mock epic in English. The volume also includes the early Pastorals, Windsor Forest, the Essay on Criticism with its advice to poets and judges of poetry, the Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Abelard, the Essay on Man and the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, in which Pope defends his life and settles accounts with his enemies. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first poems are free.
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