Ebook {Epub PDF} The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope

 · At the end, Pope tells us to "trust the Muse--for she saw it upward rise A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, and drew behind a radiant trail of hair"(canto 5 line ). Belinda's lock of hair became a star and "this lock the Muse shall consecrate to . The Rape of The Lock is a social satire on English society in 18th century which exposes the general weaknesses and follies of the human beings with its social scandals, follies, trivialities and vanities in general of fashionable men and women. Pope represents himself as a spokesman of his age and mainly satirizes the following aspects of the aristocratic society of England. PENGUIN CLASSICS THE RAPE OF THE LOCK AND OTHER MAJOR WRITINGS ALEXANDER POPE was born in London in , the son of a well-to-do cloth merchant who thought it prudent soon afterward to retire from trade in order to avoid penalties against Roman Catholics. Though never especially religious himself, the poet remained loyal to the family faith.

Alexander Pope. Quotes. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.". "To err is human, to forgive, divine.". "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.". The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, edited by John Butt and others, 11 volumes (London: Methuen, ). The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Major Works, , edited by Rosemary Cowler (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, ). OTHER. Pastorals, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, ). PENGUIN CLASSICS THE RAPE OF THE LOCK AND OTHER MAJOR WRITINGS ALEXANDER POPE was born in London in , the son of a well-to-do cloth merchant who thought it prudent soon afterward to.

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations in two cantos; a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March as a five-canto version accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days. The final form of the poem appeared in with the additio. The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings - Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope () was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic 'An Essay on Criticism' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles, Satires and Odes, and the remarkable 'Dunciad', a stinging attack.