The Rape of the Lock
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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
Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely's portrait of her
"The New Star", illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for The Rape of the Lock
Belinda sails down the Thames to Hampton Court attended by sylphs; a copperplate engraving by Anna Maria Werner (1744).
Der Lockenraub, the 1744 German translation of Pope's poem by Luise Gottsched
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan liter
The Rape of the Lock
…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 (May…
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1727
1835 woodcut of "Pope's tree", under which Pope was believed to have composed several early poems
Mawson Arms, Chiswick Lane, with blue plaque to Pope
c. 1736 portrait of Pope attributed Jonathan Richardson