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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
| Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
| Textual Features | Wendy Cope | Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters |
| Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin
's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN
says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. Frances, Lady Norton,. Memento Mori. J. Graves. prelims |
| Textual Features | Martha Fowke | Manley's elegist hails the elder writer as Life of my Muse! Hill, Aaron, and William Bond, editors. The Plain Dealer. S. Richardson and A Wilde. 1: 447 |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope
and Gay
. But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been... |
| Textual Production | Harriette Wilson | When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope
on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn) Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale. prelims |
| Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | |
| Textual Production | Helen Craik | A manuscript of HC
's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced. Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton . 373 |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first... |
| Textual Production | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
| Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page quoted Pope
's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby. title-page Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM
's brother Ashley Cowper
, dated 1747 and now British Library
MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to... |
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