Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Divorced. Henry Colburn.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Charlotte Bury | The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope
but actually from Prior
: Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
| Textual Production | Mary Caesar | MC
wrote in poetry as well as prose, all in the service of the cause. She replied to a jokey compliment from Pope
(about her ownership of his printed works) with two entirely serious couplets... |
| Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 181-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Caesar | MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the... |
| politics | Mary Caesar | She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mona Caird | Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press. 183 |
| Education | Maria Callcott | She was, she said, mainly self-educated from the books which were all around her. (She read Pope
's Homer
at nine.) She studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Icelandic as an adult. She later believed firmly that... |
| 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
... |
| 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. 52 |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | Joseph Highmore
painted EC
in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson
's poem To Eliza... |
| Textual Features | Jane Cave | One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | Her father, David Mallet
, was well-known as a poet and dramatist. During Dorothea's childhood his career prospered; he was a friend of Pope
and an active member of the political opposition centred on the... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | Pope
accused SC
of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by John Oldmixon
. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 38-40 |
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