Aubrey Beardsley, 1896
The Cave of Spleen
Alexander Pope was a satirist, whose biting verse skewered the romantic ideals of 18th century English high-society. In 1712, he published a mock-epic poem entitled “The Rape of the Lock” in which a lock of a woman’s hair is stolen by an admirer, and the incident is embellished into a drama parodying Homer’s Iliad. read more







