Alexander Pope

Morgan lashed back with gusto at the hired agents of the authorities who had attacked her private character, my person, my principles, my country, my friends, my kindred, and even my dress. The echo...

The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler ). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, it proceeds...

Her elegy may have influenced Pope 's Eloisa.

The poem concerns a a medieval knight and lady centred on a castle: a tale presented as emerging from a real-life story about a young lady, a Miss Denman, whose veil blew off on a...

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...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

Her work reveals, without ostensibly displaying, a close acquaintance with the tradition of English poetry, to which she deliberately relates herself. For instance, a poem entitled May not the Love of Praise be an Incentive...

ML here accords honorific citation to Dryden and Pope , repeated mockery to the over-long words she sees as favoured by Dr Johnson , and contempt to the famous John Bunyan of...

The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...

PA 's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland and promises: If this Trifle sells you may be sure to hear of me again. It asserts her claim that she writes...

At the outset the sisters are faced with the big question about slavery: What can I do for the cause? They reply firmly that everybody can do something: boycott sugar and educate others. They...

The new Juvenilia Press edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and...

In the essay as printed, she begins by asking whether nature can really have designed the two human sexes so unequally as is generally believed. Even the faults of which women stand accused—following fashion, inventing...