The Effulgence Within: Pope’s use of the Supernatural Machinery in The Rape of the Lock

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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Pope’s use of the Supernatural Machinery in The Rape of the Lock

Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked about Alexander Pope that “If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?” Pope’s The Rape is a social satire as well as a mock-heroic epic. Here, he mocks at the “little unguarded follies” of the fair sex, and at the artificial social life of 18th Century London as... Sign in to see full entry.

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