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The Rape of the lock / (Record no. 491625)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199116560
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency Kenya National Library Service
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 821.5 POP
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pope, Alexander,
Relator term author.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Rape of the lock /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Alexander Pope ; edited by Elizabeth Gurr.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vi, 137 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Oxford student texts.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic Catholic families at a period in England when Catholicism was legally proscribed. Petre, lusting after Arabella, had cut off a lock of her hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. Pope wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to "comically merge the two." He utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of "sylphs," or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodic version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Young women
Form subdivision Poetry.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Catholics
Geographic subdivision England
Form subdivision Poetry.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gurr, Elizabeth,
Relator term editor.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Books
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  Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Information Access Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development 03/23/2026 BAI 1249.00   821.5 POP B232530 03/23/2026 03/23/2026 Books

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