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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Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James , Thomas Hardy , Matthew Arnold , Robert Browning , and George Meredith , among others.
Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56.
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Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
The new, female Orlando (though his gender has always been subject to hints and dubious suggestions) is essentially unchanged—in identity if not in future. After an interlude among the gipsies, Orlando's new status as an...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
In Three Years After Marriage (a title which alludes to Three Hours After Marriage by Pope , Gay , and Arbuthnot ) a beautiful young wife, Matilda, is impervious to advice against quarrelling with her...
Publishing Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
She had first translated this passage from the Metamorphoses at the age of sixteen; she says she did the published version at sixty-one. It was printed, like Pope 's imitations, with the Latin original on...
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...
Textual Production Harriette Wilson
When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn)
Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale.
prelims
and an advertisement signed by Thomas Little (a pseudonym...
Reception Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW 's own sex trade. Crowds...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
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death Joan Whitrow
She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins , her executor,
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
beside the main road in Twickenham, across from the theatre. Her burial place was magnificently marked, in...
Reception Joan Whitrow
The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
Approaching the end of his life, EW published an autobiography, A Little Learning (whose title comes from Alexander Pope , recommending either substantial learning or none at all).
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(10 September 1964): 836
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Watts
The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Watts
At the outset the sisters are faced with the big question about slavery: What can I do for the cause?
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw.
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They reply firmly that everybody can do something: boycott sugar and educate others. They...
Textual Features Mercy Otis Warren
An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope on the use of satire as an...
Textual Production Mercy Otis Warren
Now back in Plymouth, she visited Boston to see the book through the press. Her title-page quotation from Pope ironically places herself, by implication, among the dunces. She dedicated the collection to George Washington .

Timeline

2 May 1709: Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was...

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2 May 1709

Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was published, including Pope 's Pastorals and poems by Anne Finch (which are placed between work by Pope and Swift ).

28 February 1712: The Whig physician-poet Sir Richard Blackmore...

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28 February 1712

The Whig physician-poet Sir Richard Blackmore published his best-known work, the physico-theologicalCreation: a Philosophical Poem. Its grandiose style was praised by some respected critics of the day, but scorned by Pope and his Tory friends.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

May 1712: The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published...

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May 1712

The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published MiscellaneousPoems and Translations, by several Hands.

December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...

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December 1713

Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope , Anne Finch , and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet ).

19 May 1720: A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond,...

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19 May 1720

A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond , included work by Pope , Prior , William Bond , George Sewell , Susanna Centlivre , Delarivier Manley , Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

December 1722: Alexander Pope edited and published his late...

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December 1722

Alexander Pope edited and published his late friend Thomas Parnell 's Poems on Several Occasions.

19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...

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19 June 1725

Dorothy Stanley , née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Before 22 April 1739: Anne Dodd, for almost thirty years the best-known...

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Before 22 April 1739

Anne Dodd , for almost thirty years the best-known of all the Londonmercuries or trade publishers, died, leaving the business to her daughters.

2 May 1742: Lady Euston, formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle,...

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2 May 1742

Lady Euston , formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle , died of her husband's ill-treatment within seven months of her wedding.

14 January 1744: Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential,...

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14 January 1744

Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential, philosophic poem in blank verse entitled The Pleasures of Imagination: the faculty which, he argues, the artist uses to apprehend and to imitate the wonders of God's creation.

18 March 1748: Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his...

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18 March 1748

Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his influential Collection of Poems by Several Hands.

By March 1756: Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings...

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By March 1756

Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope.

1759: Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm...

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1759

Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm of Millar, Kincaid and BellThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.

15 November 1763: The House of Lords learned of the existence...

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15 November 1763

The House of Lords learned of the existence of the scurrilous, obsceneEssay on Woman by Thomas Potter and John Wilkes , after its private, thirteen-copy edition for members of the Hell Fire Club had...

1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...

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1767

At auctions of copyright, Richardson 's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison and Steele 's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare at £1,800, and Pope at £4,400.

Texts

Pope, Alexander. An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot. Lawton Gilliver, 1735.
Pope, Alexander. An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington. Lawton Gilliver, 1731.
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Criticism. W. Lewis, 1711.
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Man. J. Wilford, 1734.
Pope, Alexander. Epilogue to the Satires. T. Cooper, 1738.
Seward, Anna et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell, 1805.
Pope, Alexander. Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady. Lawton Gilliver, 1735.
Pope, Alexander. Of the Use of Riches. Lawton Gilliver, 1732.
Pope, Alexander. Sober Advice from Horace. T. Boreman, 1734.
Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad. A. Dodd, 1728.
Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad in Four Books. M. Cooper, 1743.
Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad Variorum. A. Dodd, 1729.
Pope, Alexander. The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Lawton Gilliver, 1733.
Homer,. The Iliad of Homer. Translator Pope, Alexander, Bernard Lintott, 1720.
Pope, Alexander. The New Dunciad. T. Cooper, 1742.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1969.
Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. Bernard Lintott, 1714.
Pope, Alexander. The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Lawton Gilliver, 1734.
Pope, Alexander. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Bernard Lintot, 1717.
Pope, Alexander. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Volume II. Lawton Gilliver, 1735.
Gay, John et al. Three Hours After Marriage. Bernard Lintot, 1717.
Pope, Alexander. Windsor-Forest. Bernard Lintott, 1713.