POPE'S

RAPE OF THE LOCK

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

FREDERICK RYLAND, M.A.

SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

LONDON

BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

GLASGOW AND DUBLIN

1899

1175775

PREFACE

The principal object which the editor has had in view has been to make as clear as possible the literary and social environment within which the poem was produced. To impart merely philological information has not been his aim.

There is little need to do more than to place on formal record his constant obligation to the labours of previous editors, particularly to those of the late Mr. Elwin in the ten-volume edition of Pope.

PUTNEY, August, 1899.