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.
Half-length painting of Alexander Pope attributed to Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736. He is sitting and looking at the viewer, with a book in his right hand. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Thomas
Through Henry CromwellET met (at least once) Cromwell's friend 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 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 Judith Cowper Madan
The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope in Jervas 's studio. Pope...
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 Maria Hall
These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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The title objects in Grandmamma's Pockets deliver a book-length lesson in appropriate behaviour and domestic economy. Grandmamma, who succeeds...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Seymour Montague
The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope 's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate...
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 Emily Gerard
This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Thomas
The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Ham
EH writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Seward
AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...
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 Jolley
One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope
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 ...

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