The Rape of the Lock Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely 's portrait of her The Rape of the Lock[a] (Italian title: Il ricciolo rapito) is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. [1]
The most memorable work by Pope is this mock-heroic poem, The Rape of the Lock, which diffused an actual incident between two aristocratic, Catholic families, who under the Test Act were subject to harsh restrictions and penalties as non-Anglicans. Pope compared the situation to that of the world of the gods in a mocking fashion.
The first edition of The Rape of the Lock has been given as an appendix in order that the student may have the opportunity of comparing the two forms of this poem, and of realizing the admirable art with which Pope blended old and new in the version that is now the only one known to the average reader.
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The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 By Alexander Pope Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,