Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

by Alexander Pope

Despite its somewhat dry title, this text is not a musty prose dissection of literary criticism. Instead, the piece takes the shape of a long poem in which Pope, at the very peak of his powers, takes merciless...

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope, Aubrey Beardsley & Sophie Gee

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE

A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of...