Edmund Spenser

The title-page quotes Milton on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has...

She divided her life into five stages, supplying a motto for each stage, in Latin, French, and English. The English motto, for the final stage, came from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Be bold...

This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate , Spenser , Sainte-Palaye , William Hayley , and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic.

The Fortunate Shepherds (which brings hill shepherds into contact with Forest of Dean miners) uses the twelve verse-metres used by Spenser in his Shepheards' Calendar.

FID turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow , and when Lord Raglan is dead and many officers...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

In tribute to Jones's work, FN invokes the character of Una (symbol of truth, foe to error) from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene in her bid to inspire others to take on similar religious work...

Meanwhile Orlando establishes a relationship of friendship and equality with Viola Cash, a young woman who embodies intelligence, practicality, and activity as well as beauty. She supports improved education for women, and is not afraid...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

After this success Caroline began on a Romantic narrative poem in Spenser ian stanzas, set in America, to be called Amouida and Sebastian; but she did not finish it.

MT 's prose preface acknowledges her debt, early in the poem, to Apuleius ' version of the Psyche story. She says she chose the Spenserian stanza because she loved Spenser ; she found it difficult...

William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...

Croker , who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics who, according to the Morning Chronicle, were thrown into a STATE of FURY...

The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...