Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton .
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | |
| Textual Production | Helen Craik | A manuscript of HC
's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope
's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 52 |
| Textual Production | Amelia Beauclerc | It is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope
about how a work cannot be faultless. |
| Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 15n2 |
| Textual Production | George Paston | From Montagu, GP
moved on to publish in 1909 a book about Montagu's great antagonist: Mr Pope
, His Life and Times. |
| Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
| Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
| Textual Production | Winifred Peck | WP
published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope
). The date comes from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett
countered Pope
's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 11-12. 11 Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 7-9. 7 |
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