Petrarch

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair...

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...

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...

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...

AH was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft , for publication and herself translated Petrarch into English verse.