The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
1 n.s., 1827.127
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton
(a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve
and Alexander Pope |
| Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope... |
| Health | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Aikin also applied to Benger a phrase first used of the seriously disabled and pain-wracked Alexander Pope
, saying the infirmity of her constitution rendered her life a long disease. |
| Health | Mary Chandler | MC
had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope
). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne
, and may even have been anorexic. Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49. 43 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | EH
writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Seymour Montague | The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope
's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM
echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The title of this work quotes Pope
's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | She also clearly declares her allegiance to Pope
. Truth the Best Doctor. A Tale, about a London merchant, strongly suggests Pope
's tale of Sir Balaam in his Epistle to Bathurst, even... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Teft | This, ET
's answer to a proposition in verse, says she might have accepted Fido if she had won the lottery prize she had hoped for. He wrote a second reply in August, sounding wounded... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Fay | Her range of reference runs from Pope
on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe
and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More
, the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband. Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24. 10 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | Elizabeth Carter
used KP
as a pattern for a poem about friendship. It has been much debated whether Philips's 'Tis true our life is but a long disease is a source for Pope
's famous... |
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