Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14. 5
Edward Young
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Standard Name: Young, Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Rowe had used the phrase Epistles from the Dead to the Living about her own letters not long after her husband's death. |
| Dedications | Mary Julia Young | The dedication to Mrs Trant
(presumably the same who also received a dedication from Charlotte Brooke
) mentions that she can boast of being allied toEdward Young
. In 2007 the reprint firm of... |
| Education | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother taught her to read, to think, and to question. Her brother taught her to write. Her family owned some books, notably Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, which she got to know almost by heart. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 14 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Julia Young | MJY
claimed late in life to be the the only living relative of the respected poet and clergyman Edward Young
(1683-1765)—whose only child, Frederick Young
(1732-88), apparently never married. The poet, she says, was a... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Edward Young
on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth
beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | HC
's first title-page bears a quotation from Edward Young
. Her introductory address apologises for imperfections which she trusts the critical reader to overlook, and says she means her work primarily for the younger... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Talbot | This essay, an answer to number 11, which had taken the form of a letter from To-day, displays CT
's characteristic whimsical ingenuity. Night, claiming to be the elder sister of Today, defends dark... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | The title-page quotes Edward Young
. HC
comments approvingly on the spread of education for the poor, who are now admitted to that equality which God ordains in intellectual improvement. Corp, Harriet. Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections. Whittaker, 1821. 2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | The title-page of this first collection quotes from Edward Young
's Night Thoughts. Its two volumes contain most of AS
's striking hymns: metrically inventive and vividly imagistic. The figure of Christ evokes fervent... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Croker | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Timeline
May 1742-January 1746: Edward Young published his long poem of mourning...
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May 1742-January 1746
Edward Young
published his long poem of mourning (an influence on succeeding poetry both pious and morbid), The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(June 1742): 312; (April 1746): 212
12 May 1759: Edward Young published Conjectures on Original...
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12 May 1759
Edward Young
published Conjectures on Original Composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison; a second volume followed the next month.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Texts
Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. Phillips and Sampson, 1847.
Young, Edward. The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. R. Dodsley, 1745, 9 parts.