Say why are beauties prized and honoured most
- DMI number:
- 28496
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Say why are beauties prized and honoured most
- Last Line:
- Charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock heroic and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Beauty and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Rape of the Lock Canto 5. Twickenham edition II.
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Rape of the Lock.
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