Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

Using rhetoric similar to that of abolitionists, Reid draws parallels between the plight of women and that of slaves. The title-page asks (in the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley ) Can man be free, if...

Quoting a phrase originally used by the seventeenth-century Thomas Fuller , she recalls how at the old slave mart people representing God's image, carved in ebony, were lined up like cattle for sale in most...

Clusters of poems in this volume bear epigraphs pointing to both Eastern and Western influences: The Flowering Year quotes Shelley , while The Peacock Lute and The Temple: A Pilgrimage of Love quote Omar Khayyàm

In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference...

The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English...

When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...

Farr quotes from a variety of sources, from the Book of the Dead and Iamblichus 's The Mysteries to Shelley 's Ozymandias. She also includes long fragments of the Gnostic papyrus...