<p><i>The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings</i> is a collection of Alexander Pope''s greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics.<br><br>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 <i>Epistles, Satires </i>and<i> Odes</i>, and the remarkable ''Dunciad'', a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Here too are selec
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<p>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE<br><br>A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair...
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Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Pope's hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock.
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This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together...
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