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 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
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.
130
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 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...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
AD further pursued her defence both of Homer himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver;
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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this was probably not by EH —but Pope (its target) thought it was.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
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Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...
Textual Production Catherine Hutton
In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have...
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies (titled from Alexander Pope ), published in 1929, was AH 's first directly didactic, non-satirical novel.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Harriette Wilson
When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn)
qtd. in
Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale, 1825, 4 vols.
prelims
and an advertisement signed by Thomas Little (a pseudonym...
Textual Production Clotilde Graves
CG 's progress as a dramatist continued uninterrupted into the new century. The Lovers' Battle, A Heroical Comedy in Rhyme, founded upon Alexander Pope 's Rape of the Lock, was published at both London...
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She published it as Miss S., through her father 's firm, and dedicated it to the king . She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...

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