Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch
and Goethe
, was Charlotte Smith
, though AB
's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 135-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch
and another based on Goethe
's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to... |
Textual Production | Anne Bannerman | The poems were Exile, Sonnet: at the Sepulchre of Petrarch (translated from Italian), The Fall of Switzerland, The Nereid, and the sonnets Good Friday, and Easter Day. All appeared in... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
's almost-final publication (again privately printed, in a limited edition of a hundred and fifty copies by C. Whittingham
) had two title-pages: Traduzioni dall'italiano and Translations from the Italian. This too was... |
Author summary | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The two first translations that she made, when young, from Petrarch
, were of canzoni: Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte (which she rendered as From hill to hill I roam, and thought... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The modesty in these prefatory remarks seems to relate only or chiefly to her plays, but the first poems in the collection (versions of Petrarch
) are preceded by a sonnet to Thomas James Mathias |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Translations from Petrarch
's sonnets by BBBD
, collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo
reprinted them at the end of his... |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | |
Friends, Associates | Giovanni Boccaccio | He became a close friend of his fellow-poet Petrarch
in 1350, and remained so for the rest of Petrarch's life. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
Textual Production | Anne Burke | AB
's novel was advertised for sale on 21 July. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 354 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | The letters are unaffected and moral, but tend to look favourably on suicide. The first, from Eleanora, is dated 19 May 1770. She writes to Maria of her growing love for Werter, who seems to... |
Literary Setting | Lady Charlotte Bury | Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB
: England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland... |