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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 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| 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 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM
). Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 351 |
| 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 | 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 Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 102ff |
| Literary responses | Mary Davys | Whether for The Accomplish'd Rake or for Davys's whole record, this journal (which was associated with Pope
's various literary battles) printed on 15 July 1731 a piece sneering at her for writing scandal and... |
| 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 | 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 | William John Courthope | WJC
became Professor of Poetry at Oxford
and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope
which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin
. As an editor he tended to read Pope's later... |
| Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
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