Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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| Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | CG
's progress as a dramatist continued uninterrupted into the new century. The Lovers' Battle, A Heroical Comedy in Rhyme, founded upon Alexander Pope
's Rape of the Lock, was published at both London... |
| Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | Proper Studies (titled from Alexander Pope
), published in 1929, was AH
's first directly didactic, non-satirical novel. |
| Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
| Textual Production | E. M. Forster | EMF
published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, which contrasts genteel English culture with Italian. The words of the title come from Pope
's An Essay on Criticism, where they... |
| 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 | Edith Sitwell | ES
published a historical biography, Alexander Pope, her first book in prose. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 38 |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. As precedent for titling a poem about... |
| Textual Production | Clara Reeve | This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library
copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines... |
| Textual Production | Mary Caesar | MC
wrote in poetry as well as prose, all in the service of the cause. She replied to a jokey compliment from Pope
(about her ownership of his printed works) with two entirely serious couplets... |
| Textual Production | Germaine Greer | The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female... |
| Textual Production | Florence Marryat | FM
published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope
about the secret essence of every woman. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xxviii |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Abelard
to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan)
to Pope
's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison
's posthumous works. The... |
| Textual Production | Mrs Martin | Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope
's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 211-12, 213 Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. 88 |
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