The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos Book

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Pt. 1	The Rape of the Lock: The Complete Text	1
Pt. 2	The Rape of the Lock: Cultural Contexts	89
1	The Poetic World	91
	From The Lives of the Poets	96
	From The Correspondence of Alexander Pope	110
	From Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men, Collected from Conversation	127
	The Rape of the Locke, First Edition in Two Cantos	130
	From The Correspondence of Alexander Pope	165
	"To Belinda on the Rape of the Lock"	175
	"The Celebrated Beauties: A Poem. Occasioned upon Being Suspected of Writing The British Court"	176
	From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany	177
	Advertisements for The Rape of the Lock	177
	From A Key to the Lock	179
	From A New Rehearsal, or, Bays the Younger	188
	From Selected Writings	197
	The Rape of the Smock. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Two Books	203
	From The Life of Pope	215
	From Anecdotes	219
	Letter to William Walsh, "On the Subject of English Versification"	224
	From An Essay on Criticism	227
	From The Spectator, No. 253 [On An Essay on Criticism]	234
	From The Spectator, No. 411 [On Imagination]	238
	"Epistle to Mr. Jervas"	242
	From The Spectator, No. 267 [On Epic Poems]	246
	Sarpedon's Speech from The Iliad	251
	"A Receit to Make an Epick Poem," The Guardian, No. 78	252
	From The Count of Gabalis	258
2	The Social World	267
	From An Essay on Man	274
	"The Soul"	278
	"An Epistle from Pope to Lord Bolingbroke"	282
	From "A Letter to Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson"	285
	"The Council of Horses"	287
	Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture	290
	Portrait of Martha and Teresa Blount	293
	From Fables, "The Lady and the Wasp"	295
	"The Progress of Beauty"	297
	From an Essay in Defense of the Female Sex	301
	"The Appology," "Clarinda's Indifference at Parting with Her Beauty," "On Myselfe"	308
	Epistle I. To Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham	311
	From Fables, "The Monkey Who Had Seen the World"	321
	From The Spectator, Nos. 127 and 145 ["Unhoop the fair Sex"]	324
	From The Town Display'd, in a Letter to Amintor in the Country	330
	From The Spectator, No. 45 ["French Fopperies"]	330
	From The Tatler, No. 113 ["Inventory of a Beau"] and Advertisement, from The Tatler, No. 113 ["A Cosmetick for both Sexes"]	334
	From The Spectator, No. 323 [Clarinda's Journal]	340
	From A Journey through England ["The Theatres"]	345
	"The Spleen"	346
	From A Journey through England ["Of Coffee-houses"]	351
	From Philosophical Transactions, No. 256 ["A Discourse of Coffee"]	352
	"The Coffee House, or News-mongers Hall"	356
	"A Broadside against Coffee; or, the Marriage of the Turk"	360
	Advertisement, From The Spectator, No. 138 ["The Exercise of the Snuff-Box"]	362
	From Four Poems in Praise of Tobacco	364
	From The Spectator, No. 140 ["Ladies at Ombre"]	365
	"Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Omber"	366
	From The Court Gamester	367
	From Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London	372
	A Description of the Morning	377
	"A Farewell to London, in the Year 1715"	378
	"Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation"	383
3	The Political World	387
	From A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain [On the Exchange]	389
	From The Spectator, No. 69 [The Royal Exchange: "This grand Scene of Business"]	396
	From The London Spy, No. 3 [A Different Exchange]	401
	From The Examiner, No. 22 ["The Spirit of Shop-keepers"]	406
	From A Review, Nos. 85 and 90 [On the Vices of the Justices of the Peace]	407
	From An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers ["Of the Manner of Execution"]	413
	"Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged"	414
	From a Review, No. 3 ["Of the English Trade"]	416
	From A Review, No. 65 ["We do not fight for Conquest, but for Peace"]	420
	"The Balance of Europe"	423
	From Windsor-Forest	424
	From The Spectator, No. 552 ["The Industrious Part of Mankind"]	426
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