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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.
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| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 311 |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan |
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