Alexander Pope

-
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.
Half-length painting of Alexander Pope attributed to Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736. He is sitting and looking at the viewer, with a book in his right hand. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet.
qtd. in
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...
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 Judith Cowper Madan
The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM 's brother Ashley Cowper , dated 1747 and now British Library MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to...
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
It was titled after Alexander Pope (the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats . This performance, at a...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES published a historical biography, Alexander Pope, her first book in prose.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
38
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, 1975, 2 vols.
The dedication to Pope (an act of...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby, 1811, 4 vols.
title-page
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
SJ published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 15n2
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Curll published one of the many prose attacks on Pope , who at once concluded it was written by ET: Codrus: Or, The Dunciad Dissected. Being the Finishing-Stroke.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
196
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
128
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 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
These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope and Gay . But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...
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 Helen Craik
A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton , 1896–1897, 4 vols.
373
Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.