The book The Rape of the Lock: And Other Poems was written by author Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Here you can read free online of The Rape of the Lock: And Other Poems book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Rape of the Lock: And Other Poems a good or bad book?
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'26 the finny prey': a characteristic instance of Pope's preference or circumlocution to adirect phrase. '35-36' A regular formula in classical epics. In Virgil (XI, 794-795) Phoebusgrants part of the prayer of Arruns; the other part he scatters to thelight winds. '38 vast French Romances': these romances were the customary reading of society in Pope's day whenthere were as yet no English novels. Some of them were of enormouslength. Addison found several of them in a typical lady's library, gre...atfolio volumes, finely bound in gilt ('Spectator', 37). '58 All but the Sylph': so in Homer (1-25), while all the rest of the army is sleeping Agamemnonis disturbed by fear of the doom impending over the Greeks at the handsof Hector. '60 Waft': wave, or flutter. '70 Superior by the head': so in Homer ('Iliad', III, 225-227) Ajax is described as towering overthe other Greeks by head and shoulders. '73 sylphids': a feminine form of "sylphs. " '74' This formal opening of Ariel's address to his followers is a parody of apassage in 'Paradise Lost', V, 600-601.
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