MDDM Ch. 71 Pope and Lady Montague

[Dave Monroe]

"'Stay?  Here?  Christ, no, Dixon.-- 'Twas an
Odyssey,-- now must I return to the Destiny ever
waiting for me,-- faithfully,-- her Loom now mine to
sit and toil at, to the end of days, whilst she's out,
no doubt, with any number of Suitors, roaring and
merry.'
  "('Well,' suggests Uncle Lomax, 'It's Pope and Lady
Montague all over again, isn't it?  A touchy race, the
Brits, unfathomable, apt to take offense at anything,
disputes can go on for years.')" (M&D, Ch. 71, p. 691)

Homer, The Odyssey (ca. 800 B.C.E.)

http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

http://www.bartleby.com/111/

http://www.enl.umassd.edu/InteractiveCourse/Homer/odyssey.html

"her Loom"

"For [Penelope] holds out hope to all [the suitors],
and makes promises to each man/ sending us messages,
but her mind has other intentions./ She set up a great
loom in her palace, and set to weaving/ a web of
threads long and fine.  Then she said to us:/ 
"Young men, my suitors now that the great Odysseus has
perished,/ wait, though you are eager to marry me,
until I finish/ this web, so that my weaving will not
be useless and wasted./ This is a shroud for the hero
Laertes, for when the destructive/ doom of death which
lays men low shall take him, lest any/ Achaian woman
in this neighborhood hold it against me/ that a man of
many conquests lies with no sheet to wind him./
Thereafter in the daytime she would weave at her great
loom,/ but in the night she would have torches set by,
and undo it." (Odyssey II.91-128)

http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/course/ingenuity.html

And see as well ...

http://www.calliope.free-online.co.uk/odyssey/od1.htm

http://apk.net/~fjk/penelope.html

http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ct16-17/grigar.html

"Pope and Lady Montague"

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/pope-abr.html

http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/pope/life1.htm

His surroundings in Twickenham inspired Pope to study
horticulture and landscape gardening. He formed an
attachment with Lady Mary Wortley Montague, his
neighbor. When the friendship cooled down, he started
a life long relationship with Martha Blount. Later in
Imitations of Horace (1733) Pope wrote an attack on
his former friend Lady Mary as 'Sappho'.

http://www.dsu.edu/~laflinj/litcrit/pope.html

In 1727 Pope and Swift would publish the first two
volumes of "Miscellanies" while Pope was working on
"Dunciad". Both works were demonstrations of Pope's
satirical nature and his ability, at times, to be a
very bitter, nasty and shrewd man. Included in
"Miscellanies" was "Peri Bathouse" in which Pope
visciously attacked his onetime friend Lady Mary
Wortley Montague. "The Dunciad" served basically as a
vehicle for Pope to attack many of his contemporaries.
In turn they reciprocated with much ferocity,
prompting Pope to write and publish another one of his
most renknowned works, "Essay on Man". 

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/critics.html#ap

William Frith, Pope Makes Love to Lady Mary Wortley
Montague (1852) ...

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/eng/images/LMWMPope.jpg

Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1762)

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/montltrs.htm

http://news.cn.edu/English/montague.htm

"Some call Pope little nightingale--all sound and no
sense."

http://www.insultmonger.com/insults/literary/alexander_pope.htm

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