Rape of the Lock, The

Pope, Alexander Edited by A. F. Watt

ISBN 10: 0198319584 / ISBN 13: 9780198319580

Published by University Tutorial Press, 1905

About this Item

55 pages with 11 page introduction and 15 pages of notes at the rear. Thick blue card boards. There is the odd note in the margin by a previous owner butoverall good with white pages and tight binding.

Seller Inventory # 059850

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rape of the Lock, The
• Publisher: University Tutorial Press
• Publication Date: 1905
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198319584
• ISBN 13: 9780198319580
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In The Rape of the Lock Pope uses the elevated style of epic poetry to create a delightful mock epic that is steeped in eighteenth-century humour. This edition has comprehensive notes on the poem and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key features and techniques, such as Pope's use of elevated language and the allegorical settings and imagery of the poem.

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)