Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | EH
writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | The shorter attached poems include On Reading Pope
's Eloiza to Abelard (whose heroine EH
pities but cannot approve), Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author. 114 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | EH
's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but... |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Haywood | At some time before late August 1723 EH
had painted by Jacques Parmentier
the stylish portrait which adorns her Works, published this month. Many scholars have confused this with the probably non-existent portrait by... |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 57 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage
, Martha Fowke
, and David Mallet
, and their attacks established the convention that... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | Rumour had it that Pope
was already displeased at EH
's treatment in Caramania of his friend Henrietta Howard
, who was the Prince of Wales's mistress. The enmity begun at this time had long-lasting consequences. |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | This collection of attacks on Pope
and vindications of women was probably published by Edmund Curll
. EH
's appearance in this volume (and her presentation as the friend and confidante of Curll) confirmed her... |
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