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 Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant...
Textual Features Anne Francis
The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . .
Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket.
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Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales whom EH had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical...
Textual Features Samuel Johnson
This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
Her birthday poem mocks herself as Insipid and a Trifler. She does not care for grandeur; and is Not apt to Love, but is sacred Friendship's Slave. She boasts the friendship of Pope and...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell , Broome , and Oldisworth the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
Pope accused SC of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by John Oldmixon .
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen.
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Textual Production Fanny Fern
She published a number of collections from her columns. The titles of some of these later works, which included Folly as it Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern (1868—with a title allusion to the arch-satirist...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Judith Cowper's To Mr Pope —Written in his Works, 1720, composed for Pope's first published collection of his poetry (1717), and transcribed by Ashley Cowper , appeared in print the year after The Flower-Piece...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
AD further pursued her defence both of Homer himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface...
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 Mary Matilda Betham
Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...
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.
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Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Five hundred of JCM 's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library (MS...

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