Evidence: | 'An example of vivid, if not particularly fair, criticism occurs in a letter from Lady Hertford to the countess of Pomfret in 1739. "Mr Pope has seen fit to publish a new volume of poems. It contains his 'Sober Advice', 'Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-Eight', his 'Epistle to Augustus', and several things which he had sold singly... I presume [the poem "Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness"] is to prove that he can descend into Bathos, with the same alacrity that he has formerly soared to the summit of Parnassus'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1739 and 31 Dec 1739 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Lady Hertford |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | Unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alexander Pope |
Title: | [volume of poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9229 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Claudia Thomas | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers | |
Place of Publication: | Carbondale and Edwardsville | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 71 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9229, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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