Alexander Pope

The epistle, in heroic couplets, opens O! wherefore, Werther . . . . Charlotte wishes that Werther had spoken out explicitly in the beginning, since then she would have acted according to Reason and...

Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope

Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

Her birthday poem mocks herself as Insipid and a Trifler. She does not care for grandeur; and is Not apt to Love, but is sacred Friendship's Slave. She boasts the friendship of Pope and...

Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales whom EH had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical...

An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope on the use of satire as an...

She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, and offers...

One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...

Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley ) were succeeded by Dryden . (She always denied any influence from Pope .) But...

The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...

The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS 's strictures on John Weston 's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden with Pope to the advantage of...

Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...