McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. 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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him.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
. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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. 166ff |
| 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 | 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. 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, pp. 48-66. 53 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Beverley | The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. “Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger. |
| Occupation | William Lisle Bowles | WLB
's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith
and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied... |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
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