The Rape of the LockThis edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem -- both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version -- together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Pope's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and a generous collection of maps, portraits, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of this classic work of eighteenth-century literature. |
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Aeneas Alexander Pope allusion am'rous ancient Angels Ariel Art of Sinking Atalantis Baron Beau beauty Belinda bodkin CANTO chang'd Charms Clarissa cou'd couplet cry'd Dæmons death Dido Dryden's version Dunciad e'er earth echoes Envy Epick Poem Epistle ev'n ev'ry eyes fair Fate fierce fight fops glitt'ring Gnome Gods grace hand head Hearts Heav'n Hero heroic Honour Iliad of Homer John Caryll Johnson Ladies lap-dog light lines Lock Lord Love lovers Mac Flecknoe maid Metamorphoses Milton's mock epic Moral Essay never nymph o'er Ombre Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost poem's Poet Poetry Pope notes Pope's pow'r Pray'rs pride Prize Queen rage Rape ravish'd Hair Receit rhetoric rise Sarpedon Satire Satire vi sense shining silver Sir Plume Skies Snipsnap Snuff-box Soul Spades Spectator speech Spirits Spleen Sylphs Tatler tears Thalestris things thou thro Tow'rs translation trembling Troy Umbriel vapours Virgil's Aeneis Winds wits