Edmund Spenser

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Standard Name: Spenser, Edmund

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Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
LAC set up (in her mother 's name) a memorial to the poet Spenser in Westminster Abbey.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing.
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Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...
Publishing Barbara Hofland
James Montgomery , editor of the Sheffield paper the Iris, helped with encouragement and advertising. He printed the poetry volume at the Iris office in Sheffield, with a ruined-abbey frontispiece and a title-page...
Publishing Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Spenser published Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's Lay, together with his own Astrophel, in his Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke,. “Introduction”. The Triumph of Death, edited by Gary F. Waller, University of Salzburg, pp. 1-64.
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Residence Mary Shelley
After the winter months in Naples, MS and her family moved back to Rome (the Holy city,
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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as she called it in her diary, where she also quoted six lines from...
Textual Features Anne Mozley
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 .
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx.
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Textual Features Helena Wells
HW says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists.
Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech.
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She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...
Textual Features Caroline Norton
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...
Textual Features Jane Harvey
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...
Textual Features Caroline Norton
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...
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
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...
Textual Features Mary Ann Browne
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...
Textual Features Emily Lawless
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...
Textual Features Hannah Mary Rathbone
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.
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The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
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...

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