Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1736: 745
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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Anne Irwin | The Gentleman's Magazine printed AI
's An Epistle to Mr. Pope
. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women. |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 57 |
| Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 170 |
| Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford
's letter-book... |
| Publishing | Mary Barber | This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice. Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 172n13 |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The earliest form of Pope
's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM
, implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 277 |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 333 |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
| Reception | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 199 |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | Pope
's Dunciad featured EH
as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 111 |
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