Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.
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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 | 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... |
| Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM
: The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's. |
| Literary responses | Anne Dacier | Homer's current English poetic translator, Pope
, though he sets out to surpass Dacier and argues that she has left him plenty of room to do so, also cites her approvingly in a number of cases. Foulon, Éric. “La critque de l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Iliade</span> d’Anne Dacier dans l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Iliade</span> d’Alexander Pope”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, edited by Christine Dousset-Seiden and Jean-Philippe Grosperrin, Honoré Champion, pp. 157-92. 166ff |
| Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington. |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | In Pope
's lines Cowper (mild, sober, serene, virgin) thus becomes the acceptable female poet, in contrast with the unacceptable Montagu, who shines, glares, and strikes the eye. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 53 |
| Literary responses | Mary Pix | Alexander Pope
wrote but later deleted a manuscript passage in his Dunciad about a sports event for women writers in making unseemly noise. In the contest as to who Catlike growl and best can whine... |
| Literary responses | Anne Dacier | A modern biographer thinks she might have been more appreciative of Pope's opinions if she had better understood his English. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale. |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope
's To Erinna is typical in casting her as... |
| Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope
used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it... |
| Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM
). Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 351 |
| Literary responses | Mary Davys | Whether for The Accomplish'd Rake or for Davys's whole record, this journal (which was associated with Pope
's various literary battles) printed on 15 July 1731 a piece sneering at her for writing scandal and... |
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