Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | Even her few pages here consist chiefly of quotations from others: from Pope
's Eloisa to Abelard, Judith Cowper
's Abelard to Eloisa, and Abelard's own Letter to Philanthus. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | The poem concerns a a medieval knight and lady centred on a castle: a tale presented as emerging from a real-life story about a young lady, a Miss Denman, whose veil blew off on a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | From the first (in a letter to William Hayley
about her visit) AS
had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | MC
's brother Samuel (a dissenting minister and bookseller) wrote her life for The Lives of the Poets, 1753 (which bore the authorial name of Theophilus Cibber
). Shiels, Robert, and Theophilus Cibber. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift. R. Griffiths. 5: 345 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but... |
| 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.... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Atkins | She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Morgan lashed back with gusto at the hired agents of the authorities who had attacked her private character, my person, my principles, my country, my friends, my kindred, and even my dress. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 179 |
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