What did pope call his rape of the lock?
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Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely's portrait of her
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroicnarrative poem written by Alexander Pope.[1]One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos(334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days.[2] The final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem was much translated and contributed to the growing popularity of mock-heroic in Europe.
The "rape" of the title does not refer to the modern meaning of the word "rape" but to the word's earlier meaning, derived from the Latinrapere (supine stem raptum), "to snatch, to grab, to carry off"[3][4]—in this case, the theft and carrying away of a lock of hair.
Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely's portrait of her
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroicnarrative poem written by Alexander Pope.[1]One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos(334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days.[2] The final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem was much translated and contributed to the growing popularity of mock-heroic in Europe.
The "rape" of the title does not refer to the modern meaning of the word "rape" but to the word's earlier meaning, derived from the Latinrapere (supine stem raptum), "to snatch, to grab, to carry off"[3][4]—in this case, the theft and carrying away of a lock of hair.
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