Alexander Pope

21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744

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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Textual Production	Catherine Hutton	In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have...
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. The dedication to Pope (an act of...
Textual Production	Clotilde Graves	CG 's progress as a dramatist continued uninterrupted into the new century. The Lovers' Battle, A Heroical Comedy in Rhyme, founded upon Alexander Pope 's Rape of the Lock, was published at both London...
Textual Production	Aldous Huxley	Proper Studies (titled from Alexander Pope ), published in 1929, was AH 's first directly didactic, non-satirical novel. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production	Judith Sargent Murray	The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production	Lady Margaret Sackville	In 1944 Charles Richard Cammell described this meeting in a heroic light: Already in Elizabethan times, English poetry and the illustrious house of Sackville were allied; nor has the alliance failed with the passing of...
Textual Production	Edith Sitwell	ES published a historical biography, Alexander Pope, her first book in prose. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 38
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	Evelyn Waugh	Approaching the end of his life, EW published an autobiography, A Little Learning (whose title comes from Alexander Pope , recommending either substantial learning or none at all). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (10 September 1964): 836 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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	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 She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
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...

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By September 1791

William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson , his blank-versetranslations of Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope 's translation in heroic couplets.

August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.

1871-89

William John Courthope edited The Works of Alexander Pope, published in ten volumes.

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