Mock-heroic poem · 1714

The Rape of the Lock

An Heroi-Comical Poem, in Five Cantos

by Alexander Pope

A mock-epic on a society scandal — a lock of hair snipped in jest — blown up with the full machinery of Homeric epic, sylphs and all.

Contents · 5 parts

• Canto Iabout 150 lines
• Canto IIabout 140 lines
• Canto IIIabout 180 lines
• Canto IVabout 180 lines
• Canto Vabout 150 lines

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