Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press.
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Occupation | William Congreve | Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press. title-page |
Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | Edmund Gosse
wrote to congratulate JOH
on The Serious Wooing, paying it the high compliment of calling it her new version Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. J. Murray. 203 |
Literary responses | Frances, Lady Norton | The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work... |
Literary responses | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Dryden
showed his copy of the poem to |
Literary responses | Anne Killigrew | AK
's death was lamented in at least three poems. Her father printed in her PoemsDryden
's ode on her death, which links her painting and poetry, and subordinates both arts to her virtue... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Dryden
. The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | The two subsidiary poems are Macareus to Æolus, Done in imitation of Dryden
's Canace to Macareus and Æolus to Pluto. Boyd, Elizabeth. Variety. T. Warner and B. Creake. 77ff, 87ff |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth
, Shakespeare
, Dryden
, and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | This celebration of postwar modernity has as epigraph Dryden
's welcome to a new century: 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 497 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | The poems by CF
include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle. 11 |
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