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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 | 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 | Elizabeth Hands | EH
's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | CN
refers to several canonical English names (Pope
, Reynolds
, Garrick
, Shakespeare
, and Edmund Kean
in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël
for... |
| 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, 1925, pp. 7-24. 10 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | The sonnets are written in strict Milton
ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd
. In rendering Horace... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844. xvi-xvii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| 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 | 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 | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols. 2: 45-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher, 1764. 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but... |
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