Alexander Pope

21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744

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	George Paston	From Montagu, GP moved on to publish in 1909 a book about Montagu's great antagonist: Mr Pope , His Life and Times.
Textual Production	Elizabeth Carter	EC issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope 's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz . Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 52
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	Winifred Peck	WP published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope ). The date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Textual Production	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett countered Pope 's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 11-12. 11 Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 7-9. 7
Textual Production	Mary Seymour Montague	It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman...
Textual Production	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts , and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd . Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered...
Textual Production	Mercy Otis Warren	Now back in Plymouth, she visited Boston to see the book through the press. Her title-page quotation from Pope ironically places herself, by implication, among the dunces. She dedicated the collection to George Washington .
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	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	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	Curll reprinted ESR 's volume from 1696, put 1737 on the title-page, and called his publication the second edition. A third followed, published at Dublin in 1738. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. The dedication to Pope (an act of...
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	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. 38-40
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...

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