Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.
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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant... |
| Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her birthday poem mocks herself as Insipid and a Trifler. She does not care for grandeur; and is Not apt to Love, but is sacred Friendship's Slave. She boasts the friendship of Pope
and... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales
whom EH
had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical... |
| Residence | Janet Schaw | She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)... |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The earliest form of Pope
's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM
, implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores. |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 333 |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
| Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | Pope
's Dunciad featured EH
as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 111 |
| Reception | Joan Whitrow | The poet Pope
was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole
could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
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