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Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF
shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden
's... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cooper | |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | Lucretius
, as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH
and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions. Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-20. 8, 11 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley
edited on the death of John Dryden
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 31-3 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, wrote a poem in praise of Dryden
's translation of Virgil
, which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press. 186 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 210 |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | Dundee
's death, distressing news for Jacobites, drew a lament in Latin by Archibald Pitcairne
, translated by Dryden
. Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI. |
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