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 Production Evelyn Waugh
Approaching the end of his life, EW published an autobiography, A Little Learning (whose title comes from Alexander Pope , recommending either substantial learning or none at all).
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(10 September 1964): 836
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Five hundred of JCM 's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library (MS...
Textual Production Margaret Holford
Published by Hookham and Carpenter , this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope 's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bishop
Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...
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 Anna Seward
AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)
Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen.
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Textual Production Mary Charlton
The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl.
Charlton, Mary. Phedora. Minerva Press.
title-page
Like MC 's previous novel...
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.
200
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.
99
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 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.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
144
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Textual Production E. M. Forster
EMF published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, which contrasts genteel English culture with Italian.
The words of the title come from Pope 's An Essay on Criticism, where they...
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)
Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale.
prelims
and an advertisement signed by Thomas Little (a pseudonym...

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