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020			_a9780199116560
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a821.5 POP
100			_aPope, Alexander, _eauthor.
245			_aThe Rape of the lock / _c Alexander Pope ; edited by Elizabeth Gurr.
300			_avi, 137 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
490			_aOxford student texts.
504			_a Includes bibliographical references
520			_aThe 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			_aYoung women _vPoetry.
650			_a Catholics _zEngland _vPoetry.
700			_aGurr, Elizabeth, _eeditor.
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