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Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Dunciad

Pope · 1714

Canon spine row 67. Pope — Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Dunciad. Era: 1714 / 1733 / 1728. Lang: English.

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Wit becomes a weapon: Pope shows how social ambition, literary rivalry, and vanity expose the self as battlefield.

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Belinda burns with more than mortal ire, And fierce Thalestris fans the rising fire — the severed lock as social wound.
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Jove suspends his golden scales — weighs the Men's wits against the Lady's hair; the doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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They who reach Parnassus' lofty crown employ their pains to spurn some others down; self-love each jealous writer rules.
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That Fop whose pride affects a patron's name, yet absent wounds an author's honest fame — vanity masking as friendship.
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Wit, like Faith, by each man is apply'd to one small sect, and all are damn'd beside — sectarian blindness of taste.
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Vast chain of Being which from God began — from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing: the mind's place in the cosmic scale.
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