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
Literary responses Anne Dacier
A modern biographer thinks she might have been more appreciative of Pope's opinions if she had better understood his English.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.
Pope himself, in a postscript to his Odyssey translation published in 1726, disclaimed any enmity...
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it...
Literary responses Mary Pix
Alexander Pope wrote but later deleted a manuscript passage in his Dunciad about a sports event for women writers in making unseemly noise. In the contest as to who Catlike growl and best can whine...
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...
Literary responses Anne Finch
Barbara McGovern has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope 's hostility to AF . In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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She also addressed...
Literary responses Laetitia Pilkington
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP 's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope s [sic].
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.
Wordsworth also admired it.
Literary responses Mary Davys
Whether for The Accomplish'd Rake or for Davys's whole record, this journal (which was associated with Pope 's various literary battles) printed on 15 July 1731 a piece sneering at her for writing scandal and...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage , Martha Fowke , and David Mallet , and their attacks established the convention that...
Literary responses Judith Cowper Madan
Pope complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan) in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , to emulate the sun's brightness, but for...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
Rumour had it that Pope was already displeased at EH 's treatment in Caramania of his friend Henrietta Howard , who was the Prince of Wales's mistress. The enmity begun at this time had long-lasting consequences.
Literary responses Mary Caesar
She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope , Prior, Swift , Lord Orrery , and Lord Lansdowne .
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
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Material Conditions of Writing Barbara Pym
BP 's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College : The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation...
Occupation John Donne
During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a...
Occupation William John Courthope
WJC became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin . As an editor he tended to read Pope's later...
Occupation Edmund Curll
Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope 's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have...

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