La boucle de cheveux enlevée by Alexander Pope
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"La boucle de cheveux enlevée" by Alexander Pope is a mock-heroic narrative poem first published in 1712. Based on a real social scandal, the poem transforms a trivial incident—a lord secretly cutting off a lock of a lady's hair—into an elaborate epic parody complete with guardian spirits called sylphs. Pope uses the grand style of classical epics to satirize fashionable society, elevating a minor breach of etiquette to mythological proportions while exploring
themes of beauty, vanity, and reputation in eighteenth-century aristocratic life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Caylus, Madame de (Marthe-Marguerite), 1673-1729 |
| Uniform Title | Rape of the lock. French |
| Title |
La boucle de cheveux enlevée Poème héroïcomique de Monsieur Pope |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Lock Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Boucle_de_cheveux_enlev%C3%A9e |
| Credits | Produced by Pierre Lacaze. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry -- Translations into French |
| Subject | Young women -- Poetry |
| Subject | Catholics -- England -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 25680 |
| Release Date | Jun 2, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 246 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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