Alexander Pope

21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744

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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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Education	Elizabeth Grant	EG refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard...
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)...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Damer	Her mother, born Lady Caroline Campbell , was a daughter of John Campbell, later fourth Duke of Argyll , and of the former Mary Bellenden (Maid of Honour and friend of Alexander Pope ). Lady...
Family and Intimate relationships	Penelope Aubin	If Sir Richard Temple was indeed PA 's father, then she was the unacknowledged half-sister of Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham , famous as an Opposition politician, landscape gardener, and patron of Alexander Pope : a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Delany	Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne , was a statesman under Queen Anne , a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope . To MD 's parents Lansdowne was the head of the...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Anne Jevons	Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe , the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he...
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, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34
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...
Fictionalization	Héloïse	Since then she has remained a favourite subject for fiction (generally in her role as mistress rather than writer or churchwoman). Alexander Pope spread her reputation considerably when he borrowed her voice for his popular...
Fictionalization	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	For centuries LMWM has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...
Friends, Associates	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	At this time LMWM met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope , Gay , Charles Jervas , and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti .
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Tollet	His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton (a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve and Alexander Pope
Friends, Associates	Mary Caesar	MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...
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...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Thomas	Through Henry CromwellET met (at least once) Cromwell's friend Alexander Pope . Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 137-8 and n85

Timeline

By September 1791

William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson , his blank-verse translations of Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope 's translation in heroic couplets.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

61 (1791): 845

August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.

Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

250

1871-89

William John Courthope edited The Works of Alexander Pope, published in ten volumes.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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