Epistle II. To a Lady (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexander Pope
- First Published: 1735
- Type of Work: Epistle/letter in verse; satire
- Genres: Satire, Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: England or English people, Eighteenth century, Letter writing, Women, Painting or painters, Letters
The Poem
Epistle II. To a Lady is a long poem of 292 lines, written in heroic couplets in the form of a pseudo-Horatian epistle, or verse letter, that is a satire against women. It is one of four poems that Alexander Pope grouped together under the title Moral Essays (1731-1735), which were supposed to be an integral part of an ambitious and never-completed “ethic work,” inaugurated by his philosophic manifesto An Essay on Man (1733-1734) two years before the publication of Epistle II. To a Lady. The first of these four epistles illustrating the...
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