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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, qtd. in Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 199 |
| 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... |
| 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)... |
| Textual Features | Jane Collier | The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope
's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
| Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
| 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, Pennington, Sarah, Lady. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington, 1761. 38 |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
| Textual Features | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
| Textual Features | Wendy Cope | Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Textual Features | Martha Fowke | Manley's elegist hails the elder writer as Life of my Muse! Hill, Aaron, and William Bond, editors. The Plain Dealer. S. Richardson and A Wilde, 1730, 2 vols. 1: 447 |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | To demonstrate, as well as arguing for, mental equality, MR
learnedly surveys the course of political and literary history. She honours many women writers of the past (Aphra Behn
and Susanna Centlivre
as well... |
| Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
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