Alexander Pope

Her range of reference runs from Pope on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More , the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband.

Elizabeth Carter used KP as a pattern for a poem about friendship. It has been much debated whether Philips's 'Tis true our life is but a long disease is a source for Pope 's famous...

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

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...

This, ET 's answer to a proposition in verse, says she might have accepted Fido if she had won the lottery prize she had hoped for. He wrote a second reply in August, sounding wounded...

This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to...

The negative influence of CT 's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope ), which it seems...

Its setting is Catford Street, an ordinary, poor street in shabby postwar London, and the elegant Square round the corner. Its protagonist is a child waif, Lovejoy Mason; RG 's theme is the childhood...

The shorter attached poems include On Reading Pope 's Eloiza to Abelard (whose heroine EH pities but cannot approve), a celebration of the birth of a daughter, and laments for the author's exile from...

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...

Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...

As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An...

In Three Years After Marriage (a title which alludes to Three Hours After Marriage by Pope , Gay , and Arbuthnot ) a beautiful young wife, Matilda, is impervious to advice against quarrelling with her...

The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...

AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...