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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | May Drummond | Thomas Story
said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD
had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes, |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | Rumour had it that Pope
was already displeased at EH
's treatment in Caramania of his friend Henrietta Howard
, who was the Prince of Wales's mistress. The enmity begun at this time had long-lasting consequences. |
| Literary responses | Jane Wiseman | JW
may perhaps have been one of those lampooned by Alexander Pope
in his Dunciad, though if so his draft reference to her was dropped before the poem was published. Critic Valerie Rumbold
notes... |
| Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | The younger poet Helen Dunmore
, reviewing this book, found RF
's voice capable of being cutting as well as lyrical, particularly when addressing the topics of the apparatus of femininity, and of growing older.A... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Jones | |
| Leisure and Society | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which... |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Haywood | At some time before late August 1723 EH
had painted by Jacques Parmentier
the stylish portrait which adorns her Works, published this month. Many scholars have confused this with the probably non-existent portrait by... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | Joseph Highmore
painted EC
in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson
's poem To Eliza... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The title of this work quotes Pope
's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | She also clearly declares her allegiance to Pope
. Truth the Best Doctor. A Tale, about a London merchant, strongly suggests Pope
's tale of Sir Balaam in his Epistle to Bathurst, even... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | EH
writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Seymour Montague | The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope
's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM
echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Jane Vardill | Her Attic Chest poems have an erudite flavour. She replies to Anacreon
, writes A New Epistle from Sappho
to Phaon, and signs other poems Aulus Gellius
(author of the Latin Attic Nights)... |
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