Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Lock Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Boucle_de_cheveux_enlev%C3%A9e

Release date is 2008-06-02

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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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