Alexander Pope

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...

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...

An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope on the use of satire as an...

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...

An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...

The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . . Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...

Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...

The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...

The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his...

Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. She later sometimes discussed books with her husband: she admired Richardson 's Pamela for its power over the emotions and also its power to...

Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin 's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. The body...

Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...