The Rape of the Lock and Selected Poems: Advanced York Notes

Everything you need to know about The Rape of the Lock and Selected Poems to succeed in your A Level or undergraduate studies.

Whether you’re an A Level student or an undergraduate, York Notes Advanced provides the best possible guide to studying Pope’s unbridled satire of the vanity and folly of early-eighteenth-century society. Inside, you’ll find in-depth analysis of this poem and others, including Epistle to Miss Blount, An Epistle to a Lady and Eloisa to Abelard, extended commentaries, as well as an exploration of Pope’s mastery of the satiric form as he simultaneously delights and instructs, melding humour and wit with morals and ethics. With detailed notes on rhetorical features and devices, in-depth contextual and biographical notes, and overviews of key critical responses through the centuries, York Notes Advanced provide you with everything you need both to understand the text and to develop your own critical ideas.