Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford
's letter-book... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her elegy may have influenced Pope
's Eloisa. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Curll reprinted ESR
's volume from 1696, put 1737 on the title-page, and called his publication the second edition. A third followed, published at Dublin in 1738. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | She dedicates A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes to Vernon Lee
, and addresses her by name in its closing stanza. She parodies the style of Pope
in Celia's Homecoming, written for her sister Mabel |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | To demonstrate, as well as arguing for, mental equality, MR
learnedly surveys the course of political and literary history. She honours many women writers of the past (Aphra Behn
and Susanna Centlivre
as well... |
| Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
| Textual Production | Clara Reeve | This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library
copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines... |
| Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The new Juvenilia Press
edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | The poem concerns a a medieval knight and lady centred on a castle: a tale presented as emerging from a real-life story about a young lady, a Miss Denman, whose veil blew off on a... |
| Textual Features | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. Porden, Eleanor Anne. Coeur de Lion. G. and B. Whittaker. 1: xv |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | AP
quotes Pope
on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare
, Thomson
, Savage
, and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is... |
| Literary responses | Mary Pix | Alexander Pope
wrote but later deleted a manuscript passage in his Dunciad about a sports event for women writers in making unseemly noise. In the contest as to who Catlike growl and best can whine... |
| Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington. |
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