Edmund Spenser

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

NRS published two volumes of prose tales for children abstracted from Edmund Spenser : Tales and Stories from Spenser's Faery Queene and Una and the Red Cross Knight, and Other Tales from Spenser's Faery Queene.

She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. Her title-page quotes from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

MEB 's first publications included verse in The Beverley Recorder. A patron, John Gilby , volunteered to underwrite the production and publication of a volume of her poetry, stipulating that the principal piece should...

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

The last novel by the nearly ninety-year-old KSM , Molly Montague's Love Story, appeared at London with the National Society's Depository . She headed it, like her first book, with a quotation from Spenser

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .

For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert , calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser ian stanzas (CN listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the...

HW says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...

Opening in Milton ic tones of high seriousness but in Spenser ian stanzas, the poem offers up childhood as the last echo of Eden spared to humanity after the fall. The sustained trope is that...

The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce , and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...

In a twenty-page introduction, SH explains what this poem meant for him. He discusses its diction, and the way that fragments of its language have survived, embedded in, for instance, the speech of Heaney's own...