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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Alexander PopeWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Alexander PopeLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaAlexander Pope[translations of Homer and other works]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...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 editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...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 Philadelphia...'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 if these Authors would live longer, they should not...Samuel Richardson Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: 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 Extravagance; and wonder every Body else is not. Especially...Samuel Richardson Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: 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, being the first book I bought for myself. It empti...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" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and...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". She sent a copy of the verses to her sister in Paris,...Mary Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeEpistle to Mr GayUnknown
1700-1799'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...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 writ with a malice more than human, and has surely so...Elizabeth Singer Rowe Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attributing his polished style to Lord Bolingbroke's infl...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 Pope and Several Eminent Persons", she wrote Martha Lo...Mary Jones Alexander PopeLetters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent PersonsPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeSatiresPrint: 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 he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...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 he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: 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 he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book


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