Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Swanwick | AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Morgan lashed back with gusto at the hired agents of the authorities who had attacked her private character, my person, my principles, my country, my friends, my kindred, and even my dress. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Teft | This, ET
's answer to a proposition in verse, says she might have accepted Fido if she had won the lottery prize she had hoped for. He wrote a second reply in August, sounding wounded... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
| Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Through Henry Cromwell Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 137-8 and n85 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Henry Cromwell
made a gift to Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 129 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Thomas | Desperate for money, Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 138 |
| Other Life Event | Elizabeth Thomas | Pope
mercilessly portrayed Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 127 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Curll
published one of the many prose attacks on Pope
, who at once concluded it was written by Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 196 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 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. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 51 |
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