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...

including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations...

write one of his humorous heroic verses about the incident in the hope that laughter would defuse the situation. The result was The Rape of the Lock (first...

approach the dressing room. In a slight parody of the divine battle in Pope's Rape of the Lock, when the Baron of the poem attempts to cut a lock of Belinda's...

as "rape and pillage", or in titles, such as the stories of the Rape of the Sabine Women and The Rape of Europa or the poem The Rape of the Lock, which...

works of Chaucer and Shakespeare and to the Graeco-Roman classics. Contrasting examples of literary burlesque are Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and...

edition of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope. He also produced extensive illustrations for books and magazines (e.g., for a deluxe edition of Sir Thomas...

and flutter in the fields of Air. — Alexander Pope, the Rape of the Lock, Canto 1 Fouqué's wildly popular 1811 novella Undine is one of the most influential...

mock-heroic novel. The most significant later mock-heroic poems were by Alexander Pope. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a noted example of the Mock-Heroic style;...

William Shepard. (1909). Handy-book of Literary Curiosities, p. 211. Pope, Alexander. (1901) The Rape of the Lock: An Essay on Man and Epistle to Dr....