Quotes from Alexander Pope's books, and about them
The Rape of the Lock on Comte de Gabalis: “The best account I know of them is in a French book call'd 'Le Comte de Gabalis', which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake.”
Middlemarch on An Essay on Man: “Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope's "Essay on Man."”
Barchester Towers on The Rape of the Lock: “In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;" but she regarded Spenser as the purest type of her country's literature in this line.”
The Historian on The Rape of the Lock: ““Dear me,” Hedges murmured. “Pope and the alliterative. Sweet nymph. For argument.” ... “‘The Rape of the Lock,’” Hedges said politely. “Without a doubt.””
Babel on The Rape of the Lock: “for a full year Robin thought The Rape of the Lock was about fornication with an iron bolt instead of the theft of hair”