Edward Young

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...

The title-page of this first collection quotes from Edward Young 's Night Thoughts. Its two volumes contain most of AS 's striking hymns: metrically inventive and vividly imagistic. The figure of Christ evokes fervent...

Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton , Gray , Edward Young . She imitates Pope on solitude, writes first of James Hervey 's...

This essay, an answer to number 11, which had taken the form of a letter from To-day, displays CT 's characteristic whimsical ingenuity. Night, claiming to be the elder sister of Today, defends dark...

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...

The title-page quotes Edward Young on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little...

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...

Referring to her three dead children EG writes of Death: Thrice his darts flew. This is a near quotation from Edward Young 's Night Thoughts (the passage beginning Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice...

AY 's mother and elder brother both guided her early development towards bookishness. Their small store of books included Edward Young 's Night Thoughts, an importance influence on her poetry.

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

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

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is...

The epigraph is a quotation from Edward Young about merit in a low estate. This novel traces the tortuous path towards happy marriage of a young man (instead of a young woman) and presents relations...

BP began this novel as a story about Hilary and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...