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 Biography of Alexander Pope
17894 words, approx. 59.6 pages
 There was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed the Augustan Age or the Neoclassical period. Yet the earlier denomina... summary from source:
 Biography of Alexander Pope
17157 words, approx. 57.2 pages
There was a time when scholars, and educated people in general, tended to think of the first half of the eighteenth century as the "Age of Pope." Now the period is more commonly termed the "Augustan Age" or the "Neoclassical Period." Yet the earlier deno... summary from source:
Biography of Alexander Pope
5563 words, approx. 18.5 pages
Alexander Pope's prose, even when most intimate, bears directly or indirectly upon his poetry. Accordingly, his essays range from short pieces such as the defense of his pastoral poetry to the extended critical discussions that appear in his translations...
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5,127 words, approx. 17 pagesThe Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope Alexander Pope, the foremost English poet of the eighteenth century, was born in London in 1688. He studied and wrote poetry from childhood, with his first published poems appearing in 1709. His first major work, a... summary from source:
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1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos, but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2 1714 in a much-expanded...
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 The Independent - London The rape of the lock
04/08/1995: 1,014 words, approx. 3 pages John Reznikoff, president of Connecticut University, keeps his hair in a bank vault. He reckons the 70 locks from the heads of famous people - the world's biggest authenticated collection - is worth a million dollars. It was Mr Reznikoff who paid pounds... summary from source:
Monarch Notes Works of Alexander Pope: Introduction To The Rape Of The Lock
01/01/1963: 5,532 words, approx. 18 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction To The Rape Of The Lock General Background: Written when he was only twenty-four, this poem is Alexander Pope's masterpiece, and one of the finest examples of what is called "mock-heroic" poetry. One of its fascinating features is the fact... summary from source:
 The New York Observer The Single Returns! From Paglia to iPod, New Unit Aesthetic
4/17/2005: 2,877 words, approx. 10 pagesThe signs are there. Maybe it's too early, but I'd suggest we're on the verge of a new aesthetic dispensation, a tendency I'd call "The Return of the Singular." That's what I'm calling it, anyway. And, no, not just the "single" as in popular songs,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Rebecca Ferguson
12,810 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Ferguson traces the influence of Pope's classical translations on the aesthetics of mock-heroic satire he practiced in The Rape of the Lock.
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Critical Essay by David B. Morris
12,241 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Morris describes the nature of Pope's revision technique and identifies various applications in The Rape of the Lock, focusing on emblematic qualities of the Game of Ombre in canto III of the expanded version of the poem.
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Critical Essay by Ellen Pollak
11,177 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following excerpt, Pollak discusses an “enabling” contradiction between the satire on commercial values and the objectification of women in The Rape of the Lock, relating Pope's rhetorical, metaphysical, and paradoxical strategies in the poem to eighteenth-century sexual ideology.
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