| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Alexander Pope | 'Ode on Solitude' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Alexander Pope | Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the... | Robert Story | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Alexander Pope | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aenei... | Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Ph... | William Richard Grahame | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' | William Richard Grahame | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extrava... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". S... | Mary Wortley Montagu | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Mr Gay | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'An example of vivid, if not particularly fair, criticism occurs in a letter from Lady Hertford to the countess of Pom... | Lady Hertford | Alexander Pope | [volume of poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w... | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attri... | Mary Lepel Hervey | Alexander Pope | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary] Jones particularly admired Pope's letters. In August 1735, not long after the publication of "Letters of Mr Po... | Mary Jones | Alexander Pope | Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | [Ethic Epistles] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "po... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today
Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] re... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, Epistle I | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidin night/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Alexander Pope | Epitaph XI:Intended for Sir Isaac Newton | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, Epistle IV | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 26th August
Pope?s ?Dunciad?
This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nat... | Gerald Moore | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Pope | The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...' | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and A... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to m... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Moral Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Alexander Pope | The Iliad of Homer | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Alexander Pope | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almos... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who e... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Pope | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism, An | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the t... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a ... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Life of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a... | Laetitia van Lewen | Alexander Pope | Sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil’s 'Pollio' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letters to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Jonathan Swift | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [reported speech of Jonathan Swift] 'In the first Place, Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics], she had the Insolence ... | Matthew Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letter to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letter to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Windsor Forest | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | On the Death of Mr Crashaw | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Westminster Abbey] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad (books I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Dying Christian to his Soul, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'That wonderful edition of Pope has appeared: and I can never thank you enough. You cannot know what a delight it is t... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's diary:
'Oct. 17th. [1858] He [Alfred Tennyson] read aloud "The Rape of the Lock," and noted t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's ... | Major Markham | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's ... | | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Alexander Pope | Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Walter Pope | Old Mans Wish, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | [MS of his translations of Homer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Third pastoral' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Alexander Pope | [translations of Homer and other works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | translations from Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story... | Mary Darby | Alexander Pope | Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay':
'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest dau... | Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther) | Alexander Pope | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton'... | Catherine Talbot and family | Alexander Pope | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:]
'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and ... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | 'Essays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As fa... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |