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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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Thomas
Henry Cromwell made a gift to ET of some early letters of Alexander Pope .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Friends, Associates Grisell Murray
At almost every stage of GM 's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She...
Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
At this time LMWM met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope , Gay , Charles Jervas , and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti .
Health Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Aikin also applied to Benger a phrase first used of the seriously disabled and pain-wracked Alexander Pope , saying the infirmity of her constitution rendered her life a long disease.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols.
1 n.s., 1827.127
Health Mary Chandler
MC had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope ). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne , and may even have been anorexic.
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Herberts
This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Wall
This extraordinary narrative of abuse by her father sounds almost incredible, yet its subject-matter is not parallelled by that of any work of contemporary fiction. AW proves her literary entitlement by quoting Pope and the...
Intertextuality and Influence Rumer Godden
Its setting is Catford Street, an ordinary, poor street in shabby postwar London, and the elegant Square round the corner. Its protagonist is a child waif, Lovejoy Mason; RG 's theme is the childhood...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Croker
The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hands
The shorter attached poems include On Reading Pope 's Eloiza to Abelard (whose heroine EH pities but cannot approve),
Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author, 1789.
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a celebration of the birth of a daughter, and laments for the author's exile from...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Fanshawe
One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Hertford's Story of Inkle and Yarrico delivers the bare bones of the story. Thomas Inkle, an ambitious young English tradesman sailing to the Caribbean to seek his fortune, is shipwrecked en route. As a lone...
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
The new, female Orlando (though his gender has always been subject to hints and dubious suggestions) is essentially unchanged—in identity if not in future. After an interlude among the gipsies, Orlando's new status as an...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Jones
As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An...

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