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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Eliza Haywood
At some time before late August 1723 EH had painted by Jacques Parmentier the stylish portrait which adorns her Works, published this month. Many scholars have confused this with the probably non-existent portrait by...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Carter
Joseph Highmore painted EC in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson 's poem To Eliza...
Leisure and Society Mary Jones
MJ mentions her reading (or running over) as reaching from Milton 's Paradise Lost to popular ballads, even taking in Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, but her favourite was Pope .
Jones, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley.
317, 301, 319
Leisure and Society Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which...
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...
Literary responses Mary Caesar
She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope , Prior, Swift , Lord Orrery , and Lord Lansdowne .
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98.
181-2
Prior
Literary responses Judith Cowper Madan
Pope complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan) in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , to emulate the sun's brightness, but for...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage , Martha Fowke , and David Mallet , and their attacks established the convention that...
Literary responses Martha Fowke
Critic Jerome McGann enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope .
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon.
44
This combination, he...
Literary responses May Drummond
Thomas Story said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes,
Story, Thomas.
720
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Literary responses Eliza Haywood
Rumour had it that Pope was already displeased at EH 's treatment in Caramania of his friend Henrietta Howard , who was the Prince of Wales's mistress. The enmity begun at this time had long-lasting consequences.
Literary responses Ruth Fainlight
The younger poet Helen Dunmore , reviewing this book, found RF 's voice capable of being cutting as well as lyrical, particularly when addressing the topics of the apparatus of femininity, and of growing older.A...
Literary responses Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pope published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM : The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.
274
Literary responses Anne Dacier
Homer's current English poetic translator, Pope , though he sets out to surpass Dacier and argues that she has left him plenty of room to do so, also cites her approvingly in a number of cases.
Foulon, Éric. “La critque de l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Iliade</span> d’Anne Dacier dans l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Iliade</span> d’Alexander Pope”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, edited by Christine Dousset-Seiden and Jean-Philippe Grosperrin, Honoré Champion, pp. 157-92.
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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.
Wordsworth also admired it.

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