A term denoting the whole society of literary, political, and journalistic hack writers, which Pope uses in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735) as part of his cultural critique. It was also an actual street in London until the early 19th century.
A street on the boundary of Covent Garden in London, particularly notable for the Theatre Royal. By the 18th-century, when Pope was writing, Covent Garden had become a den of disrepute: brothels, taverns, theaters. In Epistle to Dr.
The location of Pope's villa on the bank of the Thames, a few miles from Hampton Court. In Pope's time, Twickenham was a village west of London where many rich Londoners had houses. He makes a few references to it in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735), particularly in reference to how even his own home seems unable to isolate him from the masses of critics and admirers. Pope built a tunnel under a road to connect his main garden with his villa.
The Mint is a district in Southwark, south London, named after a mint established there in 1543 by King Henry VIII. The mint ceased operations under Mary I and was demolished in 1557. In Alexander Pope's time, it was a place where debtor's were free from arrest. In Epistle to Dr.
The Corycian Cave, located on Mount Parnassus was sacred to Pan and the Muses, the inspirational goddesses of literature, science and the arts. In his Horatian satirical poem, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735), Alexander Pope references Parnassus in order to emphasize how he feels bombarded on all sides, by both his critics and his fans, who are inspired by him.
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and, of course, Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London, founded in 1247. In his Horatian satirical poem, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735), Alexander Pope references Bedlam in order to emphasize how he feels bombarded on all sides, by both his critics, who he thinks are insane and/or foolish, and his fans.
London's famous clock. In D.H. Lawrence's poem, "Town in 1917" (1919), the clock is described both before and during World War I:
A bridge over the River Thames, completed in November 1750, linking Westminster on the west with Lambeth on the east. In William Wordsworth's sonnet, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802", the speaker meditates on the view from London that is, one supposes, seen from the bridge:
