The complete online text of The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope.

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...

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...

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...

The 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...

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...

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...

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...

The 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,...

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.

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.

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.

Essay gives a brief insight into Alexander Pope's life and goes into great detail about the literary devices used in "The Rape of the Lock."

Essay discusses the allusions and references in "Rape of The Lock" by Alexander Pope.