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.

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Textual Features Anna Seward
The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
Even her few pages here consist chiefly of quotations from others: from Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, Judith Cowper 's Abelard to Eloisa, and Abelard's own Letter to Philanthus.
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)
Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...
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. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Intertextuality and Influence Edith Sitwell
ES 's governess, Helen Rootham , was a major influence on her intellectual development, since she introduced her to serious poetry, both English and French, making her the heir to two distinct traditions. By the...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Sleath
The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The Lily of Annandale is a retelling of the ballad Helen of Kirkconnel (who was accidentally killed by one of her rival lovers taking aim at the other). How to be Rid of a Wife...
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...
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She published it as Miss S., through her father 's firm, and dedicated it to the king . She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
The title-page quotes Shakespeare : later on Pope , Thomson , Thomas Tickell , Charles Cotton , and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central...
Education Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

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