One character in this poem builds an altar out of "twelve vast French Romances" and "all the trophies of his former love" which he lights on fire with a "billet-doux." In the fourth part of this poem, a "dusky melancholy Spright" is given a bag of sighs and a vial of sorrows from the Queen of Spleen. The main character of this poem triumphantly wins a game of ombre in its third canto, and is guarded by a group of spirits called Sylphs led by Ariel. It opens by observing "what mighty contests rise from trivial things," and was based on an incide
One character in this poem builds an altar out of "twelve vast French Romances" and "all the trophies of his former love" which he lights on fire with a "billet-doux." In the fourth part of this poem, a "dusky melancholy Spright" is given a bag of sighs and a vial of sorrows from the Queen of Spleen. The main character of this poem triumphantly wins a game of ombre in its third canto, and is guarded by a group of spirits called Sylphs led by Ariel. It opens by observing "what mighty contests rise from trivial things," and was based on an incident between Lord Petre and Arabella Fermor. For 10 points, name this mock epic poem written in heroic couplets in which the Baron snips off a curl of Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope.
One character in this poem builds an altar out of "twelve vast French Romances" and "all the trophies of his former love" which he lights on fire with a "billet-doux.
"The {Rape} of the {Lock}"