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CR Episode 285: The Rape of the Lock, Part I
Aug 25, 2025
01:20:30
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The panel discusses the first two cantos of Alexander Pope's heroi-comical peacemaker poem, with special attention to its use of foreshadowing, the style and tenor of its dialogue, and its allegedly Rosicrucian spiritology (and its textual origins).
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