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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | E. M. Forster | EMF
published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, which contrasts genteel English culture with Italian. The words of the title come from Pope
's An Essay on Criticism, where they... |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. As precedent for titling a poem about... |
| Textual Production | Mercy Otis Warren | Now back in Plymouth, she visited Boston to see the book through the press. Her title-page quotation from Pope
ironically places herself, by implication, among the dunces. She dedicated the collection to George Washington
. |
| Textual Production | Clara Reeve | This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library
copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Germaine Greer | The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female... |
| Textual Production | Florence Marryat | FM
published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope
about the secret essence of every woman. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xxviii |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Curll reprinted ESR
's volume from 1696, put 1737 on the title-page, and called his publication the second edition. A third followed, published at Dublin in 1738. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
| Textual Production | Mrs Martin | Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope
's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 211-12, 213 Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. 88 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Curll
published one of the many prose attacks on Pope
, who at once concluded it was written by Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 196 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 128 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | It was titled after Alexander Pope
(the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats
. This performance, at a... |
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