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The Rape of the Lock Audiobook by Alexander Pope
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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK • By Alexander Pope • An audiobook read by Rhonda Federman • Genre: Poetry, Satire, Narratives • Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 � 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. • The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version (794 lines). The final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under such laws as the Test Act, all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties (for example Petre could not take up his place in the House of Lords as a Catholic). Petre, lusting after Arabella, had cut off a lock of her hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. Pope, also a Catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to comically merge the two. He utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of sylphs, or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodied version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. • Index: • 00 - 00:00:00 - Epistle Dedicatory • 01 - 00:03:59 - Canto I • 02 - 00:14:15 - Canto II • 03 - 00:24:00 - Canto III • 04 - 00:36:11 - Canto IV • 05 - 00:48:17 - Canto V • Additional information: • This audiobook is from Librivox. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. • Running Time: 00:58:58 • Read by: Rhonda Federman • Book Coordinator: Rhonda Federman • Meta Coordinator: TriciaG • Proof Listener: Betty M • Thank you for listening this 'The Rape of the Lock - Audiobook by Alexander Pope' with Noriko Campbell channel. Please subscribe if you like our audiobooks and want to get more interesting audiobooks. • https://goo.gl/Zv2x3x • o0o-NorikoCampBell-o0o
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