The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock

by Alexander Pope

Book Overview

When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and "laugh them together again". But the result - which in its ingenuity and poetical brilliance reaches peaks of epic sublime - concealed darker and more dangerous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847497268
• ISBN13: 9781847497260
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"