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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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 | 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 | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Jones | |
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 | Judith Cowper Madan | In Pope
's lines Cowper (mild, sober, serene, virgin) thus becomes the acceptable female poet, in contrast with the unacceptable Montagu, who shines, glares, and strikes the eye. qtd. in Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66. 53 |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 202 |
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 lIliade dAnne Dacier dans lIliade dAlexander Pope”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, edited by Christine Dousset-Seiden and Jean-Philippe Grosperrin, Honoré Champion, 2010, pp. 157-92. 166ff |
Literary responses | Jane Wiseman | JW
may perhaps have been one of those lampooned by Alexander Pope
in his Dunciad, though if so his draft reference to her was dropped before the poem was published. Critic Valerie Rumbold
notes... |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope
's To Erinna is typical in casting her as... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope
used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it... |
Literary responses | Anne Dacier | A modern biographer thinks she might have been more appreciative of Pope's opinions if she had better understood his English. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005. |
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 | Delarivier Manley | |
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, 1999. 274 |
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