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.

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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.
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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
The work's authorship had been implied on later works by...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Curll published one of the many prose attacks on Pope , who at once concluded it was written by ET: Codrus: Or, The Dunciad Dissected. Being the Finishing-Stroke.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
196
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
128
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Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
It was titled after Alexander Pope (the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats . This performance, at a...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Abelard to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan) to Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison 's posthumous works.
The...
Textual Production Mrs Martin
Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope 's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the...
Textual Production Mary Masters
MM published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW 's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope ), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Pope published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR , and her elegy on her husband .
Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press.
1: 84
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
49-51, 518n35
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...
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope and Gay . But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She published it as Miss S., through her father 's firm, and dedicated it to the king . She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...
Textual Production Helen Craik
A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton .
373
Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first...
Textual Production Maria Barrell
This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page.
Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

Timeline

By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...

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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...

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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...

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1871-89

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

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