Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | In Pope
's lines Cowper (mild, sober, serene, virgin) thus becomes the acceptable female poet, in contrast with the unacceptable Montagu, who shines, glares, and strikes the eye. |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 62 |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope
's To Erinna is typical in casting her as... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Pope
complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan)
in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, to emulate the sun's brightness, but for... |
| Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope... |
| 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 Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her birthday poem mocks herself as Insipid and a Trifler. She does not care for grandeur; and is Not apt to Love, but is sacred Friendship's Slave. She boasts the friendship of Pope
and... |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope
used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it... |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
| Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The fictitious narrator begins by observing that while some may consider the story of someone of her station devoid of interest, she has been in contact all her life with cultivated ladies of the highest... |
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