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 Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Chandler
MC 's brother Samuel (a dissenting minister and bookseller) wrote her life for The Lives of the Poets, 1753 (which bore the authorial name of Theophilus Cibber ).
Shiels, Robert, and Theophilus Cibber. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift. R. Griffiths.
5: 345
The question remains open...
Textual Production Mary Charlton
The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl.
Charlton, Mary. Phedora. Minerva Press.
title-page
Like MC 's previous novel...
Textual Features Jane Collier
The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope 's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Cooper
She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope (that time, which has made Chaucer unintelligible, will one day do the same with...
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Susanna Cooper
Harriet begins by loving the town better than the country. To Emilia, who prefers the country, she writes: Why Child, the very Thoughts of such a Life stupify me.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. Letters Between Emilia and Harriet. R. and J. Dodsley.
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Against her mother's wishes she...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
is the place of poetry in present-day culture, and that her approach to this topic is satirical in the manner of Pope , making...
Occupation William John Courthope
WJC became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin . As an editor he tended to read Pope's later...
Textual Production Helen Craik
A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton .
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Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson
Intertextuality and Influence B. M. Croker
The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Croker
The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...
Occupation Edmund Curll
Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope 's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell , Broome , and Oldisworth the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she...

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