McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | An epigraph to The Champion of Virtue quotes from Horace
's Ars Poetica about how a text should communicate sense as well as pleasure. In an Address to the ReaderCR
makes the familiar claim... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Iris Murdoch | Though she was a contented only child, IM
said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the... |
Publishing | Frances Brooke | FB
dated the dedication of Emily Montague, to Guy Carleton
, Governor of Québec, on 22 March 1769. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 105 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The Verses are the most brilliant of all the many satirical attacks on Pope, and one of the most offensive. They zero in on his physical disability, and claim that it is the sign of... |
Textual Features | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace
, as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems... |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | The speakers are the same in both poems: the poet, who defends his practice as a valiant defender of the truth, and a well-wisher who tries to persuade him to tone down the dangerous socio-political... |
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