Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | The story follows its hero's unsurprising metamorphosis: he begins as the socially negligible James Treton, an orphan, assistant in an accoucheurs' and surgeon-apothecaries' practice, and ends as Arthur, Duke of Avon. It opens with nicely... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope
(A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton
and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Trotter | The negative influence of CT
's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope
), which it seems... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Croker | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly
's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope
's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson
's... |
| 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 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... |
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