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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
| 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... |
| 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 | |
| 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. 315-16 |
| 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... |
| Residence | Janet Schaw | She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | She also clearly declares her allegiance to Pope
. Truth the Best Doctor. A Tale, about a London merchant, strongly suggests Pope
's tale of Sir Balaam in his Epistle to Bathurst, even... |
| Textual Features | Sarah, Lady Pennington | She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, Sarah, Lady Pennington,. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington. 38 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sappho | Interest in her sexuality was disseminated in Europe by Ovid
in his Heroides (or Heroines), a collection from the first century AD of fictional epistles, mostly from women (all of them except Sappho mythological)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly
's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope
's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson
's... |
| Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | In 1944 Charles Richard Cammell
described this meeting in a heroic light: Already in Elizabethan times, English poetry and the illustrious house of Sackville were allied; nor has the alliance failed with the passing of... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Pope
published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR
, and her elegy on her husband
. Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press. 1: 84 Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 49-51, 518n35 |
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