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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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
| Textual Features | Jane Cave | One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and... |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66. 62 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bentley | The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB
writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each... |
| Residence | Janet Schaw | She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)... |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 333 |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | Pope
's Dunciad featured EH
as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969. 111 |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, qtd. in Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 199 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
| Reception | Joan Whitrow | The poet Pope
was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole
could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
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