| Evidence: | 'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may not. If we find few abstract terms in the 'Rape of the Lock', we find a profusion of them in the sublimer 'Essay on Man'".' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1747 and 31 Dec 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anna Seward |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1747 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| 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: | Rape of the Lock, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9242 | |
| 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: | 114 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9242, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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