Tollet, Elizabeth

MS, periodical, and miscellany circulation supplement her one anonymous lifetime publicaiton

Tickell, Thomas

contributed eight pieces to Tonson's 1709 Miscellanies, contributed to the Guardian, contributed to Steele's Miscellanies (1714), anthologized posthumously in Dodsley's Collection (1748)

Pope, Alexander

Pope prided himself on his freedom from patronage and his financial independence, secured primarily by the profit from his translation of Homer's Iliad. In 1976 David Foxon estimated that the value of Pope's Homer to the poet, translated into the financial values of that year, was about ?200,000. Throughout his career, Pope satirized the poverty of "Grub-street" writers who wrote for patronage and profit. Pope thus put forth an image of himself as a gentleman-poet free from the pressures of the literary marketplace.

Carter, Elizabeth

Carter's publications in GM jumpstarted her literary career. Her wide learning, praised by SJ, was uncommon for a woman of the day and balanced by her piety and domestic skills. She became a sensation with the public as a result of her youth, talent, and gender. With the help of her father and her many literary friends, she pursued a literary career in London. "She published riddles, odes, epigrams, and poems in the Augustan mode" (DNB). However, her best-known and most financially successful work was her translation of Epictetus.

Carolan, Turlough

Carolan is a borderline poet who composed popular instrumental pieces as well as songs to which he wrote simple, "amateurish" lyrics in Irish (DNB). Many still survived over a centural later in the oral folk repertoire and in manuscript form. As a professional harper, Carolan enjoyed a high social status in Ireland, where music was a large part of the culture. The harp was also considered closely related to the bardic poetic tradition.