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Textual Production | Norah Lofts | Her title is a near-quotation from the lyric by Dryden
which closes The Secular Masque; NL
both quotes Dryden and thanks him. Her preface says Madeline Smith—may the earth lie lightly upon her—gave... |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane
which may have been... |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | On the death of John Dryden
, DM
edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xii-xiii |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | MW
has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist
's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller
's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby
's Rutherford and... |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | The American title echoes Dryden
's All for Love (Act 4, scene 1): Men are but children of a larger growth. The book is dedicated To Another Father and Mother in gratitude for a wide... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Despard | CD
's second novel, Wandering Fires (titled from John Dryden
), appeared the same year as Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow. |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden
's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Like most of her peers, MMB
maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham
(though he prints more letters to than from her). She... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings
, His Funerals Blessing. This was the young man whose death Dryden
lamented with extravagant hyperbole in his... |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
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 Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
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