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RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1 by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT DIRE OFFENCE FROM AMOROUS CAUSES SPRINGS
Last Line: SOME FOLD THE SLEEVE, WHILEST OTHERS PLAIT THE GOWN; %AND BETTY'S PRAISED FOR LABOURS NOT HER OWN
Subject(s): CRIME AND CRIMINALS; RAPE;

Poem Sources:

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF ENGLISH POETRY; CHAUCER TO ARNOLD.
  LLOYD-EVANS, BARBARA (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERSE.
  LONSDALE, ROGER (ED.)
  (1984)
 
THE BROADVIEW ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
  ROSENGARTEN, HERBERT & GOLDRICK-JONES, AMANDA (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
ALEXANDER POPE. PAT ROGERS (ED.) (THE OXFORD POETRY LIBRARY)
  POPE, ALEXANDER
  (1994)
 



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