Rape of the Lock

Text:

The Rape of the Lock (with notes by Cummings)

Quotes:

• "A little learning is a dangerous thing" (from the Essay on Criticism)
• "Those rules of old discovered, not devised, /Are Nature still, but Nature methodized" (ibid.)
• "A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ" (ibid.)
  
• "To err is human, to forgive, divine" (ibid.)
  
• "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (ibid.)
• "The proper study of mankind is man" (from the Essay on Man)
• "Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, / A being darkly wise, and rudely great..." (ibid.)
  

Contexts:

• RotL study guide by Cummings
• RotL study guide @ SparkNotes
  
• RotL article on Wikipedia
• Alexander Pope article on Wikipedia
• Pope on CHEAL
  

Terms:
mock-heroic; heroic couplet; epigrammatic style; hyperbole; juxtaposition; satire; Augustan; classicism; the Age of Reason; Enlightenment;