Alexander Pope

One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope

The title of this work quotes Pope 's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation.

She also clearly declares her allegiance to Pope . Truth the Best Doctor. A Tale, about a London merchant, strongly suggests Pope 's tale of Sir Balaam in his Epistle to Bathurst, even...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

EH writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim...

The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope 's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate...

Her range of reference runs from Pope on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More , the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband.

Elizabeth Carter used KP as a pattern for a poem about friendship. It has been much debated whether Philips's 'Tis true our life is but a long disease is a source for Pope 's famous...

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

This, ET 's answer to a proposition in verse, says she might have accepted Fido if she had won the lottery prize she had hoped for. He wrote a second reply in August, sounding wounded...

Its setting is Catford Street, an ordinary, poor street in shabby postwar London, and the elegant Square round the corner. Its protagonist is a child waif, Lovejoy Mason; RG 's theme is the childhood...

The shorter attached poems include On Reading Pope 's Eloiza to Abelard (whose heroine EH pities but cannot approve), a celebration of the birth of a daughter, and laments for the author's exile from...

This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to...

As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An...