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 Excerpt
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Wall
This extraordinary narrative of abuse by her father sounds almost incredible, yet its subject-matter is not parallelled by that of any work of contemporary fiction. AW proves her literary entitlement by quoting Pope and the...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Jane Vardill
Her Attic Chest poems have an erudite flavour. She replies to Anacreon , writes A New Epistle from Sappho to Phaon, and signs other poems Aulus Gellius (author of the Latin Attic Nights)...
Intertextuality and Influence Catharine Trotter
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...
Dedications Catharine Trotter
She had begun work on these remarks during the winter of 1739. They appeared anonymously, dedicated to Pope , in tribute to his argument about the congruence of self-love and benevolence. According to Thomas Birch
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Trotter
The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...
Intertextuality and Influence Melesina Trench
A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great (representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles the sculptor (Genius). This piece...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Tollet
The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
51
ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Tollet
His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton (a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve and Alexander Pope
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Thomas
The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Thomas
Through Henry CromwellET met (at least once) Cromwell's friend Alexander Pope .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
137-8 and n85
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Thomas
Henry Cromwell made a gift to ET of some early letters of Alexander Pope .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
129
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
Desperate for money, ET sold letters in her possession to Edmund Curll , including letters from Pope to Henry Cromwell .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
138
Other Life Event Elizabeth Thomas
Pope mercilessly portrayed ET (then in debtors' prison) in the Dunciad.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
127

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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