Petrarch

Some reviewers accused her of disparaging Petrarch . The book did not sell well (which she blamed in part on her chosen publishers having a reputation for left-wing politics), but it was chosen Book of...

Charles A. Huttar has praised AL 's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons calls the sonnets her most...

Their editor Harriet Kramer Linkin calls these poems often unsettling and unsettled,pulsating with the frustrated energies of unfulfilled Petrarchan desire voiced from a complex feminine position. Linkin followed up her edition with a critical...

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski has summarised LMW 's achievement (her historical importance and the quality of her art) like this: Wroth reinvented the Petrarch an lyric sequence, the romance, and the pastoral drama, claiming those genres...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Julie de...

The story is set in a Scottish border castle in the reign of Henry VII . ES again quotes learnedly: Ariosto and Petrarch in the original Italian, and Horace in Latin. The widowed Gertrude Baroness...

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...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

ESG quotes a stanza from Burns 's A Prayer in the Prospect of Death on her title-page, and says she can offer her reader no ghosts or artificial terrors. She takes up...

The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch , Byron , Germaine de Staël . In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel...

This thinly disguised autobiographical fiction (both roman à clef and bildungsroman) depicts a lesbian or invert relationship at a time when public attention to unorthodox sexual relationships (following such attention by sexologists), was on the...

LEL recalled devising poetry during her early childhood in East Barnet, where she moved at the age of seven: I cannot remember the time when composition in some shape or other was not a...