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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 | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | MC
's brother Samuel (a dissenting minister and bookseller) wrote her life for The Lives of the Poets, 1753 (which bore the authorial name of Theophilus Cibber
). Shiels, Robert, and Theophilus Cibber. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift. R. Griffiths, 1753, 5 vols. 5: 345 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Atkins | She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Her work reveals, without ostensibly displaying, a close acquaintance with the tradition of English poetry, to which she deliberately relates herself. For instance, a poem entitled May not the Love of Praise be an Incentive... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
| 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 | Frances Jacson | The title-page quotes Pope
and Staël
. The novel's opening sounds like a tale of mysterious origins, but without the mystery. A quotation from Shakespeare
's Tempest—Prospero telling Miranda the story of her past—introduces... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | Elizabeth Carter
used KP
as a pattern for a poem about friendship. It has been much debated whether Philips's 'Tis true our life is but a long disease is a source for Pope
's famous... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland qtd. in Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubins The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721)”. Womens Writing, Vol. 20 , No. 1, 2013, pp. 49-63. 52 qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| 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 | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The fictitious narrator begins by observing that while some may consider the story of someone of her station devoid of interest, she has been in contact all her life with cultivated ladies of the highest... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
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