Miscellaneous Poems and Translations
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First edition
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things --from Canto I FIRST EDITION, containing the FIRST APPEARANCE of Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The earliest version of Pope's mock heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, composed in a fortnight during summer 1711, had for nine months been anonymously printed in Bernard
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