Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby.
title-page
Alexander Pope
-
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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page quoted Pope
's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM
's brother Ashley Cowper
, dated 1747 and now British Library
MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to... |
| 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. 52 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Curll reprinted ESR
's volume from 1696, put 1737 on the title-page, and called his publication the second edition. A third followed, published at Dublin in 1738. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
| Textual Production | Amelia Beauclerc | It is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope
about how a work cannot be faultless. |
| Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 15n2 |
| Textual Production | George Paston | From Montagu, GP
moved on to publish in 1909 a book about Montagu's great antagonist: Mr Pope
, His Life and Times. |
| Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
| 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 | Winifred Peck | WP
published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope
). The date comes from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett
countered Pope
's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 11-12. 11 Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 7-9. 7 |
| 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/. |
| Textual Production | Anne Dacier | Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell
, Broome
, and Oldisworth
the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope
in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she... |
| 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. 38-40 |
Timeline
By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...
Writing climate item
By September 1791
William Cowper
published, with Joseph Johnson
, his blank-versetranslations of Homer
's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope
's translation in heroic couplets.
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
Writing climate item
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.
1871-89: William John Courthope edited The Works of...
Writing climate item
1871-89
William John Courthope
edited The Works of Alexander Pope, published in ten volumes.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.