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
Textual Production Fanny Fern
She published a number of collections from her columns. The titles of some of these later works, which included Folly as it Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern (1868—with a title allusion to the arch-satirist...
Publishing Fidelia
Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 494
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
The Eden of the title is Gloucestershire, where EF spent 1940-1 in Cirencester. She vividly describes traditional farm and market-town life, archaic class hierarchies, and the adaptation of this small local community to...
Anthologization Anne Finch
Pope selected for his and Bernard Lintot 's anthology, Poems on Several Occasions, a poem he addressed to AF , as well as her responding poem, and half a dozen more by her.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Editors McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press.
68-70
Foxon, David F. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Editor McLaverty, James, Clarendon Press.
48-50
Literary responses Anne Finch
Barbara McGovern has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope 's hostility to AF . In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press.
102ff
She also addressed...
Education Eliza Fletcher
Grandmother Brudend and a paternal aunt educated Eliza with poetry and stories. The letters of Elizabeth Singer Rowe were important in her reading. It was said, however, that her grandmother over-encouraged her in precocious display...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs E. M. Foster
The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...
Literary responses Martha Fowke
Critic Jerome McGann enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope .
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon.
44
This combination, he...
Anthologization Martha Fowke
Five poems by MF (as Mrs. Fowke) appeared in good poetic company (with Pope , Prior , Susanna Centlivre , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and others) in Anthony Hammond 's A New Miscellany, published on 19 May 1720.
Textual Features Martha Fowke
Manley's elegist hails the elder writer as Life of my Muse!
Hill, Aaron, and William Bond, editors. The Plain Dealer. S. Richardson and A Wilde.
1: 447
and tuneful Mistress of my Mind, dressed in immortal honours. Her own muse, she said, would have been strengthened for the Race...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Hertford's Story of Inkle and Yarrico delivers the bare bones of the story. Thomas Inkle, an ambitious young English tradesman sailing to the Caribbean to seek his fortune, is shipwrecked en route. As a lone...
Textual Features Frances, Lady Norton
Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin 's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One.
Frances, Lady Norton,. Memento Mori. J. Graves.
prelims
The body...
Textual Features Anne Francis
An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...
Textual Features Anne Francis
The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . .
Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket.
5
Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...

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