SOURCE: “‘What stranger Cause’: Pope's Iliad and The Rape of the Lock,” in The Unbalanced Mind: Pope and the Rule of Passion, The Harvester Press, 1986, pp. 32-63.
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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