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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Maria Callcott | She was, she said, mainly self-educated from the books which were all around her. (She read Pope
's Homer
at nine.) She studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Icelandic as an adult. She later believed firmly that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope
's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 52 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Jane Cave | One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | Her father, David Mallet
, was well-known as a poet and dramatist. During Dorothea's childhood his career prospered; he was a friend of Pope
and an active member of the political opposition centred on the... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | Pope
accused SC
of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by John Oldmixon
. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969. 38-40 |
| Publishing | Marianne Chambers | Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope
's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade. Chambers, Marianne. He Deceives Himself. Dilly, 1799, 3 vols. title-page |
| Health | Mary Chandler | MC
had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope
). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne
, and may even have been anorexic. Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49. 43 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | MC
's brother Samuel (a dissenting minister and bookseller) wrote her life for The Lives of the Poets, 1753 (which bore the authorial name of Theophilus Cibber
). Shiels, Robert, and Theophilus Cibber. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift. R. Griffiths, 1753, 5 vols. 5: 345 |
| Textual Production | Mary Charlton | The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope
about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl. Charlton, Mary. Phedora. Minerva Press, 1798, 4 vols. title-page |
| Textual Features | Jane Collier | The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope
's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift |
| Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Cooper | She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope
(that time, which has made Chaucer
unintelligible, will one day do the same with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Susanna Cooper | Harriet begins by loving the town better than the country. To Emilia, who prefers the country, she writes: Why Child, the very Thoughts of such a Life stupify me. Cooper, Maria Susanna. Letters Between Emilia and Harriet. R. and J. Dodsley, 1762. 6 |
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