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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Textual Features Anna Seward
The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales whom EH had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical...
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...
Textual Features Mercy Otis Warren
An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope on the use of satire as an...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
Her birthday poem mocks herself as Insipid and a Trifler. She does not care for grandeur; and is Not apt to Love, but is sacred Friendship's Slave. She boasts the friendship of Pope and...
Textual Features Anne Francis
An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...
Textual Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant...
Textual Features Anne Francis
The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . .
Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket, 1787.
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Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gilding
Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
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The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?
Concanen, Matthew, editor. The Flower-Piece. Walthoe, 1731.
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JCM calls on the...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...
Textual Features Jane Cave
One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...
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 Bentley
The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...
Textual Features Judith Cowper Madan
Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding.
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66.
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She later sometimes discussed books with her husband: she admired Richardson 's Pamela for its power over the emotions and also its power to...

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