The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
1 n.s., 1827.127
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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton
(a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve
and Alexander Pope |
| Health | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Aikin also applied to Benger a phrase first used of the seriously disabled and pain-wracked Alexander Pope
, saying the infirmity of her constitution rendered her life a long disease. |
| Health | Mary Chandler | MC
had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope
). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne
, and may even have been anorexic. Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49. 43 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | She dedicates A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes to Vernon Lee
, and addresses her by name in its closing stanza. She parodies the style of Pope
in Celia's Homecoming, written for her sister Mabel |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | Delves tells his own story as a boy and youth from the age of thirteen to twenty-two. He is brought up by Owen, the barber-scribe for the illiterate village (whom he supposes to be his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her elegy may have influenced Pope
's Eloisa. |
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