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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Like most of her peers, MMB
maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham
(though he prints more letters to than from her). She... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Beverley | The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Her work reveals, without ostensibly displaying, a close acquaintance with the tradition of English poetry, to which she deliberately relates herself. For instance, a poem entitled May not the Love of Praise be an Incentive... |
Occupation | William Lisle Bowles | WLB
's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith
and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope
, Buckingham
, Prior
, Dryden
and Finch
). |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
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. 12 , pp. 11-12. 11 Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 7-9. 7 |
Education | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's... |
Education | Robert Browning | Like Alexander Pope
, Browning was an autodidact, educating himself in his father's vast library. In 1828 he began reading Greek at London University
but dropped out in his second term. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 10, 18-19 |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make... |
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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