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...

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

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

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...

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

The volume is suffused with lament for the plight of Ireland past and present, as in the Dirge for All Ireland. 1581. This was the second year of the brutal colonising campaign of the...

Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...