This seminal edition includes comprehensive annotation, the 1712 version of the poem as well as the 1714 version, and substantial critical material in appendices. No student of Pope can afford to be without this classic edition.

Alexander Pope, Geoffrey Tillotson Late Professor of English, Birkbeck College, University of London.

INTRODUCTION, NOTE ON TEXT, KEY TO NOTES, THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: An Heroi-Comical poem in five Canto's APPENDICES A THE RAPE OF THE LOCKE (I7I2 VERSION) B SYLPHS C THE HEROIC COUPLET D THE LIFE OF POPE