The Rape of the Lock and the Dunciad (Deseret Alphabet Edition)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet best-known for his translation of Homer and other works in heroic couplets. He is the most-quoted English writer after William Shakespeare. The Rape of the Lock is a satiric poem and mock-epic based on a scandal caused when a nobleman Robert Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair without her permission. By recounting the incident in the elevated style of Homer's epics Pope trivializes it in the hopes of ending the schism between the two families. The Dunciad another mock-epic pillories many of the then-prominent but now-forgotten literary figures of the day by describing their devotion to the goddess Dulness. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).