Complete your Alexander Pope - Peggy Ashcroft, George Rylands and Joan Hart, John Nettleton, Margaret Field Hyde, Janette Richer, Denis McCarthy, Prunella Scales collection.

Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition

But Alexander Pope is nothing if not a bit ridiculous. And he uses just such an occasion-someone cutting off a friend's lock of hair-to craft this long, funny, famous poem, The Rape of the Lock. We know: nowadays the word "rape" usually describes a horrific situation at which laughing is strictly-and rightly-forbidden. But back in 1714, when Pope published The Rape of the Lock, the term "rape" had a broader definition. With the expanded version, Pope succeeded in reuniting his friends and in achieving poetic fame: The Rape of the Lock was a smash hit throughout his lifetime and became one of his most famous and best-loved poems. It was also his most light-hearted (coincidence?). As he got older and more involved in politics, his outlook (and his poetic satires) got a lot more bitter and made him many enemies.

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Martial, Epigrams 1. 4). Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky; These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair.

Alexander Pope: Alexander Pope, poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34). He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors. Pope’s father, a wholesale linen. Alexander Pope, (born May 21, 1688, London, England-died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London), poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34). English literature: Pope. Alexander Pope contributed to The Spectator and moved for a time in Addisonian circles; but from about 1711 onward

Emma Topping, George Rylands, Peggy Ashcroft. George Rylands - The Rape of Lock (Canto 3, Lines 1 - 24) 01:36. Emma Topping - Ode on St. Cecilias Day 05:52. Emma Topping - Ode on Solitude 00:51. Peggy Ashcroft - Epistle to Miss Blount 03:18. George Rylands - The Duncaid (Book 4, Lines 578 - 607) 02:04. Emma Topping - The Dying Christian to His Soul 00:57. Stories fom The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - Emma Topping. The Very Best of Women's Short Stories - Celia Johnson, Emma Topping. The Poetry of Emily Brontë - Emma Topping

Poetry of Alexander Pope book. A selection of Alexander Pope's finest poetry read by George Rylands, Peggy Ashcroft, and Emma Topping.

Complete summary of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Rape of the Lock. Pope draws on his own experience in the classics in combining epic literary conventions with his own wit and sense of values. The entire poem is written in five cantos, making use of the popular rhymed iambic pentameter verse, along with balance, antithesis, bathos, and paranomasia.