The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems

It has been the aim of the editor in preparing this little book to get together sufficient material to afford a student in one of our high schools or colleges adequate and typical specimens of the vigorous and versatile genius of Alexander Pope. With this purpose he has included in addition to
The Rape of the Lock
, the
Essay on Criticism
as furnishing the standard by which Pope himself expected his work to be judged, the
First Epistle
of the
Essay on Man
as a characteristic example of his didactic poetry, and the
Epistle to Arbuthnot
, both for its exhibition of Pope's genius as a satirist and for the picture it gives of the poet himself. To these are added the famous close of the
Dunciad