George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

Miss Middleton's new Polish home is half-palace, half-cottage; her new pupil, Anulka Zielinska, is a precocious, delicate ten-year-old. Anulka's father is dead, her mother is a cadaverous invalid, and her sister Jadwiga is nine years...

The business of these poems is to heroicize the British soldiers fighting in Crimea, in such lines as They fell, but died not—heroes cannot die. The verses make frequent use of...

LEL's work was more varied, particularly in the miscellaneous poetry attached to such collections prefaced by longer poems, than has been recognized. Although much of her poetry does invoke sentiment, there is also a strongly...

MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold. She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...

The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their...

In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy.

According to its editor Julia Markus , the poem constitutes one of the most detailed accounts of Florence in 1847 and 1849, and it interweaves with that political history of a nation-in-the-making a deeply personal...

Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...

Writing beyond the ending of Childe Harold is indicative of the special place that Byron holds in relation to CG 's work. She often quotes his poetry in influential positions, and she plays variations on...

The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella) , widow of the poet...

LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...

ME did some writing even after she moved to Sussex, but she dissipated her inadequate energy on competing projects: a play about Byron , a short study of John Clare , a few stories...

HBS defended the role taken by Lady Byron in her marriage to the poet , which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.

The title-page quotes Byron .

KT established in her novel She Walks in Beauty (whose title comes from a lyric by Byron ) a plot line she would repeatedly use in later novels.