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The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

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Description for The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings Paperback. The author was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This book includes selections of his work that follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Damrosch, Leo. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368.

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics.

Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140423501
SKU
9780140423501
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99-1

About Alexander Pope
ALEXANDER POPE was born in London in 1688, the son of a well-to-do Roman Catholic cloth merchant. In 1709 he launched his career with a set of four pastorals, followed by An Essay on Criticism, Windsor Forest and the mock-epic Rape of the Lock, which cemented his reputation as the greatest poet of the age. Later works included the Dunciad, ... Read more

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