SOURCE: “The Aesthetics of Revision in The Rape of the Lock,” in Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense, Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 75-102.
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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