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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 | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. vii, 14 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Melesina Trench | A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great
(representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles
the sculptor (Genius). This piece... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| 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 | Judith Sargent Murray | In the essay as printed, she begins by asking whether nature can really have designed the two human sexes so unequally as is generally believed. Even the faults of which women stand accused—following fashion, inventing... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Charlotte Bury | The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope
but actually from Prior
: Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Divorced. Henry Colburn, 1837, 2 vols. title-page |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | MC
's brother Samuel (a dissenting minister and bookseller) wrote her life for The Lives of the Poets, 1753 (which bore the authorial name of Theophilus Cibber
). Shiels, Robert, and Theophilus Cibber. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift. R. Griffiths, 1753, 5 vols. 5: 345 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Atkins | She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock... |
| 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 | 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 | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Her work reveals, without ostensibly displaying, a close acquaintance with the tradition of English poetry, to which she deliberately relates herself. For instance, a poem entitled May not the Love of Praise be an Incentive... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson |
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