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.
Half-length painting of Alexander Pope attributed to Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736. He is sitting and looking at the viewer, with a book in his right hand. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Fidelia
Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 494
Publishing Anne Irwin
The Gentleman's Magazine printed AI 's An Epistle to Mr. Pope . By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1736: 745
Publishing Mary Davys
Alexander Pope is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns , Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and John Barber (partner of the late Delarivier Manley ). The Bodleian Library
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This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels.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, 2003.
57
Volume one features an elegant portrait of EH by Jacques Parmentier
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Dodd version went through several slightly revised editions before and after 16 January 1735, when a Fifth Edition Corrected was advertised in response to Pope 's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot—a poem addressed to...
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...
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, 1999.
333
Reception Eliza Haywood
This collection of attacks on Pope and vindications of women was probably published by Edmund Curll . EH 's appearance in this volume (and her presentation as the friend and confidante of Curll) confirmed her...
Reception Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pope 's Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace attacked LMWM and her husband together.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
344-5, 345n63
Reception Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pope 's Sober Advice from Horace attacked LMWM (under a variety of ingenious but permeable nicknames): to be even suggested in a poem of this pornographic tone was damaging.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
346-7
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 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 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, 1969.
111
Reception Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
qtd. in
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
199
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...
Reception Elizabeth Tollet
Sir Isaac Newton admired ET 's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele 's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually...

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