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Pope's The Rape of the Lock Considered as a Five-Act Epic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

James L. Jackson
James L. Jackson*
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University of Arkansas
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 65 , Issue 6 , December 1950 , pp. 1283 - 1287
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1950

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References

1 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, 5th ed. (London, 1806), i, 239.

2 Traité du Poëme Epique (Paris, 1693), p. 149.

3 Ibid., Book ii, chapters 10, 11.

4 Formation de la Doctrine Classique en France (Paris, 1927), p. 343.

5 Gondibert: an Heroick Poem (London, 1651), pp. 22-24, quarto edition (copy in Univ. of Illinois Library).

6 “The Epic in Five Acts”, SP, xlui (1946), 465-481.

7 In Essays, ed. W. P. Ker (Oxford, 1900), i, 151.

8 “The Epic in Five Acts”, p. 466.

9 William Shakspen's Five-Act Structure (Urbana, 1947).

10 Ibid., p. 237.

11 Ibid., p. 239, and passim.

12 Ibid., pp. 232, 238, 239.

13 Ibid., p. 238.

14 Ibid.

15 Cf. Loyd Douglas, “ ‘A Severe Animadversion on Bossu’”, PMLA, lxii (1947), 690-706.