Alexander Pope

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...

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...

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...

Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...

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?JCM calls on the...

The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . . Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...

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...

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...

Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. She later sometimes discussed books with her husband: she admired Richardson 's Pamela for its power over the emotions and also its power to...

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...

Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...

EAP says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. She uses couplets, unadorned and yet Popeian . The long scholarly footnotes...

Overall, ML 's poetic forms are those current in her day. Her model was Pope , whom she admired as an artist and identified with as having, like herself, physical disabilities to contend with. But...

The Compleat Housewife, a comic ghost story, brings together a Southern American belle (who has married an English baronet) with his ancestress Lady Deborah Corbryan The story makes use of recipes drawn, says CG

This novel provides a satirical portrait of high society in early eighteenth-century England. It centres on Henrietta, Countess of Marchmont, an upper-class orphan enduring a loveless marriage and imperilled by her first visit to...