Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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Publishing | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | She had first translated this passage from the Metamorphoses at the age of sixteen; she says she did the published version at sixty-one. It was printed, like Pope
's imitations, with the Latin original on... |
Publishing | Judith Cowper Madan | Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. |
Publishing | Marianne Chambers | Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope
's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade. Chambers, Marianne. He Deceives Himself. Dilly. title-page |
Publishing | Fidelia | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford
's letter-book... |
Publishing | Mary Davys | Alexander Pope
is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns
, Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and |
Reception | Joan Whitrow | The poet Pope
was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole
could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for... |
Reception | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
Reception | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 199 |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | This collection of attacks on Pope
and vindications of women was probably published by Edmund Curll
. EH
's appearance in this volume (and her presentation as the friend and confidante of Curll) confirmed her... |
Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The earliest form of Pope
's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM
, implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 277 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 333 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
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