by Alexander Pope · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140423501
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«The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings» is an anthology by Alexander Pope, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (960 pages, in English).
The anthology includes early poems, the mock-heroic poem «The Rape of the Lock», which satirizes a social scandal, «An Essay on Criticism», extracts from his translation of the Iliad, imitations of Horace, «The Dunciad», prose and letters to contemporaries such as John Gay and Jonathan Swift.
The edition, edited by Leo Damrosch, includes an introduction, chronology, bibliography and notes.
For readers of eighteenth-century English poetry and literary satire, interested in an annotated edition of Alexander Pope.
