Edward Young

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Standard Name: Young, Edward

Connections

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Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane of the future Minerva Press ,
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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and for the first time put her name (Mrs. Bonhote of Bungay, Suffolk) on the title-page...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
HC 's first title-page bears a quotation from Edward Young . Her introductory address apologises for imperfections which she trusts the critical reader to overlook, and says she means her work primarily for the younger...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
The title-page quotes Edward Young . HC comments approvingly on the spread of education for the poor, who are now admitted to that equality which God ordains in intellectual improvement.
Corp, Harriet. Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections. Whittaker.
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The book's short...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Croker
The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Deverell
Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young , Milton , Prior , Blair , Thomson , and Pope . MD 's repeated claims to...
Textual Production Mary Deverell
The title-page had a quotation from Edward Young , and carried the information that MD was selling copies from her own house. MD dedicated the play to the Duchess of Rutland .
Textual Production George Eliot
GE finished her last major article for the Westminster (on eighteenth-century poet Edward Young ) in December 1856. Despite Chapman 's offer to pay her twelve guineas a sheet from now on, her last work...
Textual Production Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
EGF submitted writing to periodicals under the pseudonyms Laura or Arachne. The postscript to Edward Young 's Resignation. In Two Parts, and a Postscript, published in London and Philadelphia in 1764, addressed to...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs E. M. Foster
The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Francis
AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gilding
Referring to her three dead children EG writes of Death: Thrice his darts flew.
Pitcher, Edward W. “Eliza Gilding (Mrs. Daniel Turner): Some Facts and Inferences”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 6-22.
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This is a near quotation from Edward Young 's Night Thoughts (the passage beginning Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Grant
The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young , the Bible, Macpherson 's Ossian and Homer 's Odyssey, Sterne and Smollett
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Jacson
Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Timeline

May 1742-January 1746: Edward Young published his long poem of mourning...

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May 1742-January 1746

Edward Young published his long poem of mourning (an influence on succeeding poetry both pious and morbid), The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.

12 May 1759: Edward Young published Conjectures on Original...

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12 May 1759

Edward Young published Conjectures on Original Composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison; a second volume followed the next month.

Texts

Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. Phillips and Sampson, 1847.