A mock-heroic narrative poem in English by Alexander Pope, first published in 1712 and expanded in 1714. It satirizes a real social quarrel, a young nobleman's theft of a lock of hair from a society beauty, by treating the trivial incident with the full machinery of classical epic, gods, battles and elevated language turned to a drawing-room dispute, making it one of the most celebrated examples of mock-epic in English poetry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope.
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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos (334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings.
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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope.
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It satirizes a real social quarrel, a young nobleman's theft of a lock of hair from a society beauty, by treating the trivial incident with the full machinery of classical epic, gods, battles and elevated language turned to a drawing-room dispute.
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