The Rape of the Lock

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:adaptation opera by Samuel Arnold
various stage adaptations
gptkbp:author gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:criticalReception widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of English satire
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Arabella_Fermor
gptkbp:expandedEditionPublished 1714
gptkbp:featuresCharacter gptkb:Clarissa
gptkb:Thalestris
gptkb:Ariel
gptkb:Baronet
gptkb:Belinda
gptkbp:firstPublished 1712
gptkbp:form heroic couplets
gptkbp:genre mock-epic
gptkbp:includes often included in anthologies of English poetry
gptkbp:influenced English satirical poetry
later mock-epic works
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Homer's_Iliad
gptkb:Virgil's_Aeneid
Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
gptkbp:inspiredBy real-life quarrel between Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod Augustan poetry
gptkbp:notableFor satirical treatment of trivial events
use of supernatural sylphs
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things
gptkbp:parodyOf epic conventions
heroic poetry
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:London
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Bernard_Lintot
gptkbp:setting gptkb:London
gptkb:Hampton_Court
gptkbp:structure five cantos (1714 edition)
two cantos (1712 edition)
gptkbp:subject high society satire
gptkbp:theme gender roles
social satire
triviality of aristocratic concerns
vanity
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5
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