The Rape of the Lock: A Cultural Edition (Bedford Cultural Editions) - Softcover

Pope, Alexander; Wall, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312115695 ISBN 13: 9780312115692

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 1998

Synopsis

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office.

About this title

Review:

"Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause" (Peter Ackroyd)

"One of the jewels of the Augustan age" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

'[It is] a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312115695
• ISBN 13: 9780312115692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442