This final version includes a "Dedicatory Letter" to Miss Fermor, which serves the purpose of excusing the previous "imperfect" draft, with which the lady was less than pleased, as well as introducing the theme of the poem: the "little unguarded follies" of the fair sex. Pope tells us that with the aid of certain devices he will explore this theme, and it is at this point that we become acquainted with the "machinery" of the poem. ... Based on the Rosicrucian Doctrine, which would have been familiar to all intellectual minds of the age, Pope's "machinery" is made up of spirits and deit...

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