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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Frances Lady Norton | Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin
's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN
says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. Norton, Frances, Lady. Memento Mori. J. Graves, 1705. prelims |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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