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The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1712
Pages
Pages 20

A lord snips a lock of a society beauty's hair, and the theft is inflated into a full Homeric epic, with sylphs for gods and a card game for the battlefield.

What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope

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