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id: 19654
title: Alexander Pope
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  Four books of this poem survived for a long time, for Pope had a more had great poets--so said the "knowing Walsh," as Pope calls him--"but Pope, in fact, set to work with great vigour in his favourite published as a letter to Wycherley, it gives the impression that Pope, questionable career, some four years later, is given by Pope in a letter in earlier hands to embody true poetic feeling; but in Pope''s time it introduce Pope to its real author, the great Addison himself. Pope sent another letter or two to Steele, which look very much like a letter which, says Pope, "affected me so much that it made me like a other--the fact being that Swift had only the letters from Pope to Pope talk to you," says Bolingbroke to Swift in 1731, "of the noble work more elaborate philosophical works are in the form of letters to Pope,


id: 30421
title: The Age of Pope (1700-1744)
author: Dennis, John
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  If the _Age of Pope_ proves of help in this way the wishes of the writer life the poet had lived in the country, but Nature and Pope were not Swift, who by the aid of his powerful pen was assisting Harley and St. John to rule the country, made Pope''s acquaintance, and ultimately was heard to say at the coffee-houses that ''the best poet in England Mr. Pope a Papist'' had begun a translation of Homer which he should not was one of the warmest of Pope''s friends, and his letters to the poet English poets, and Pope''s careful workmanship often makes his satirical to _The Essay on Man_,[21] which every student of Pope will read, he In poetry Pope takes a first place in the second order of poets. ''From that time,'' says Johnson, ''Pope and Philips lived in a perpetual Unlike Pope, Swift was a man of affairs rather than of letters.


id: 6314
title: Biographical Essays
author: De Quincey, Thomas
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  great rival Pope, who had expressly studied Shakspeare, was, after Shakspeare was in fact the first man of letters, Pope five latter years of his life Shakspeare passed in dignified ease, power to Shakspeare''s female world, is a peculiar fact of contrast but Pope''s father was a man of sense and principle; he must have public favor, in the year 1709 Pope first came forward upon the In the year 1712, Pope appeared again before the public as the twenty years after the publication of the poem, in which Pope, in a Pope''s works; a monument of satirical power the greatest which man unhappy man had visited Pope for the last time. of Pope about four years before, by a defence of the Essay on Man, that which comes from the personal friends of Pope, little natural that an intellectual man like the Sergeant, personally made


id: 34821
title: The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
author: Anonymous
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  from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope volley that the author of _The Scribleriad_ could fairly claim, as Pope Laureate.[3] _The Scribleriad_ follows the general run of satires against example of _The Dunciad_ and borrows many details from Pope, his poem has the Tom-Tit in the brothel story in Cibber''s _Letter to Pope_ and to mythical figure "Fame," Dulness'' handmaiden in _The New Dunciad_) who sets Pope-Cibber quarrel see R. thought this work did more harm than good to Pope''s cause, would have And strait a Form appear''d, like _ancient Fame_, } "Grant me thy Aid, great Goddess, but once more; Like _Menas_ great (tho'' with dishonest Fame) } William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California, Los


id: 33441
title: The Man of Taste
author: Bramston, James
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  R. Leavis calls Andrew Lang "a scholar and a man of taste, with a But for the age of Pope, "taste" was a key term in its Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson that the satire on "taste" of Pope, _A Miscellany on Taste_ (1732) reprinted Pope''s _Epistle_ the title of Bramston''s poem.[4] Bramston''s _The Man of Taste_ (1733) topicality of "taste" at the time Bramston wrote his poem, and it is second edition, 1759), and Alexander Gerard''s _Essay on Taste_ (1759). There are numerous satiric portraits of the "Man of Taste": Mr. Sterling in _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766) is a good example clearly highest proof of modern politeness."[8] Bramston''s Man of Taste is a _The Man of Taste_ (together with _The Art of Politicks_) was included 7. In his edition of Pope''s _Works_ (London, 1797), V, 285 (note on the number and order of editions of _The Man of Taste_, see The facsimile of Bramston''s _The Man of Taste_ (1733) is reproduced by


id: 36544
title: Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and Conjectures
author: Hunter, Joseph
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  daughter of William Turner, Esq., of York: she had three brothers, one of the children of William Turner, of York, Esq., who, by Thomasine Newton, inhabitant of this house, but it can have been but a short tenancy by Mr. Turner, whose far more proper designation was that which Pope had given son of John Pope of Wroxton, who was brother of Sir Thomas (who left no that Lancelot Turner, of the city of York, gentleman, was residing there, describes himself Lancelot Turner, of Towthorpe, in the county of York, seventeen children of William Turner, of whom Edith, the mother of Pope, William Turner, son of Philip, and nephew and principal heir of Lancelot, sheriff, Edward Turner was a married man, and the father of a family. In the year 1580, "Thomas Turner, goldsmith, son of Edward of York, as the son of Edward Turner, gentleman.


id: 38275
title: Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man''s Answer to Are These things So: (1740)
author: Miller, James
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  the pamphlet campaign against Robert Walpole that took place at the end Grotto," to Robert Walpole, "A Great Man at Court," set off a round of pro-Walpole poem entitled _They are Not_, was also published at about anti-Walpole poem, _The Great Man''s Answer_[11] purporting to be "by the author of _Are these things so?_." But the pro-Walpole forces were still Sir Robert Walpole and the defenders of his Whig Ministry. Great Man''s Answer_ to Miller is far more slender and rests largely on carried Pope''s name as author on the title page. _Are these things so?_ opens with Pope challenging Walpole to explain _Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of _The Lives of the Poets of Great-Britain and Ireland_, By Mr. Theophilus Cibber, and other hands (London, 1753), V, 332-334. Author of a Poem, lately publish''d, entitled ARE THESE THINGS SO?


id: 33080
title: A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
author: Cibber, Colley
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  in the hands of a great Genius?" Cibber asks, remarking on Pope''s acid The _Apology_''s praise of Pope did not benefit Cibber; years before the As long as Cibber was in his own territory, he could answer Pope orally, one of Cibber''s pamphlets had just come into Pope''s hands. Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_ followed the publication of this _Dunciad_, Quoth Cibber to Pope, Tho'' in Verse you foreclose, enduring fame of Pope has caused Cibber''s triumph over him to be lost [9] Cibber''s supposition that Pope wrote the _Clue to the Non-Juror_ has meaning between Cibber''s "too" and Pope''s "still", maintaining a defense of Pope as it is in attack against Cibber, but it offers no The facsimile of _A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_ (1742) is A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_, A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_, A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_, TO Mr. _POPE_,


