Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mona Caird | Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The Lily of Annandale is a retelling of the ballad Helen of Kirkconnel (who was accidentally killed by one of her rival lovers taking aim at the other). How to be Rid of a Wife... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | She dedicates A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes to Vernon Lee
, and addresses her by name in its closing stanza. She parodies the style of Pope
in Celia's Homecoming, written for her sister Mabel |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her elegy may have influenced Pope
's Eloisa. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | Delves tells his own story as a boy and youth from the age of thirteen to twenty-two. He is brought up by Owen, the barber-scribe for the illiterate village (whom he supposes to be his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's... |
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