num_pages: 442
description: This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Pope's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and a generous collection of maps, portraits, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of this classic work of eighteenth-century literature.
language: English
title: The Rape of the Lock
titlecomplete: The Rape of the Lock
characters: Belinda (Alexander Pope), Ariel (Alexander Pope), Umbriel, Queen of Spleen, The Baron (Alexander Pope), Thalestris, Sir Plume, Clarissa (Alexander Pope)
genres: Fiction, Poetry, British Literature, School, Humor, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Read For School, College
ratings_count: 15508
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's