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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 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
| 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, 1798, 4 vols. title-page |
| Textual Production | Germaine Greer | The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female... |
| Textual Production | Florence Marryat | FM
published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope
about the secret essence of every woman. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | In 1944 Charles Richard Cammell
described this meeting in a heroic light: Already in Elizabethan times, English poetry and the illustrious house of Sackville were allied; nor has the alliance failed with the passing of... |
| Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Textual Production | Mrs Martin | Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope
's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 211-12, 213 Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003. 88 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Pope
published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR
, and her elegy on her husband
. Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press, 1922, 2 vols. 1: 84 Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990. 49-51, 518n35 |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Abelard
to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan)
to Pope
's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison
's posthumous works. The... |
| Textual Production | Mary Masters | MM
published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of... |
| 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... |
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