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.

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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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
EC issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope 's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Amelia Beauclerc
It is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about how a work cannot be faultless.
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
SJ published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
1: 15n2
Textual Production George Paston
From Montagu, GP moved on to publish in 1909 a book about Montagu's great antagonist: Mr Pope , His Life and Times.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Pope published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR , and her elegy on her husband .
Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press.
1: 84
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Seymour Montague
It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman...
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts , and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd . Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW 's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope ), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for...
Textual Production Winifred Peck
WP published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope ).
The date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett countered Pope 's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
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, pp. 11-12.
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Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
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, pp. 7-9.
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Textual Production Anne Dacier
Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell , Broome , and Oldisworth the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she...
Textual Production Mercy Otis Warren
Now back in Plymouth, she visited Boston to see the book through the press. Her title-page quotation from Pope ironically places herself, by implication, among the dunces. She dedicated the collection to George Washington .
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Judith Cowper's To Mr Pope —Written in his Works, 1720, composed for Pope's first published collection of his poetry (1717), and transcribed by Ashley Cowper , appeared in print the year after The Flower-Piece...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Curll reprinted ESR 's volume from 1696, put 1737 on the title-page, and called his publication the second edition. A third followed, published at Dublin in 1738.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
The dedication to Pope (an act of...

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