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Alexander Pope
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Standard Name: Pope, Alexander
As well as being a translator, critic, and letter-writer, AP
was the major poetic voice of the earlier eighteenth century, an influence on almost everyone who wrote poetry during his lifetime or for some years afterwards.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Germaine Greer | The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female... |
| Textual Production | Florence Marryat | FM
published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope
about the secret essence of every woman. |
| Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | It was titled after Alexander Pope
(the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats
. This performance, at a... |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Abelard
to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan)
to Pope
's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison
's posthumous works. The... |
| Textual Production | Mrs Martin | Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope
's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 211-12, 213 Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. 88 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Curll
published one of the many prose attacks on Pope
, who at once concluded it was written by Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 196 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 128 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Textual Production | Mary Masters | MM
published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of... |
| Textual Production | Harriette Wilson | When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope
on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn) Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale. prelims |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope
and Gay
. But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been... |
| Textual Production | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
| Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page quoted Pope
's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby. title-page Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM
's brother Ashley Cowper
, dated 1747 and now British Library
MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to... |
Timeline
By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...
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By September 1791
William Cowper
published, with Joseph Johnson
, his blank-versetranslations of Homer
's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope
's translation in heroic couplets.
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
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August 1811
Francis Jeffrey
wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare
outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
1871-89: William John Courthope edited The Works of...
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1871-89
William John Courthope
edited The Works of Alexander Pope, published in ten volumes.
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