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Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Norma Clarke
sees in this late work some of FH
's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum compared this novel favourably to the work of Jane Austen
, saying that HM
outstripped her predecessor in creating characters of a higher order of mental force and spiritual attainment, and offering to... |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 149 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
, who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25 (1821): 532 |
Literary responses | Martha Fowke | Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
. McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon. 44 |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
Literary responses | Harriet Lee | Byron
praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury
asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from... |
Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron
's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. Carew, Dudley. “Folly’s Handbook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1331, p. 532. 532 |
Literary responses | L. E. L. | Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and... |
Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf
, who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend... |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
Literary responses | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington
declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron
's much-quoted... |
Literary Setting | Emma Tennant |
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