Petrarch

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...

However, LEL's version of the narratives of her female precursors presents a complex layering of voices framed by that of her Florentine improvisatrice. Even though the speaker has poured [her] full and burning heart /...

SL 's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . ....

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...

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...

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , completed a poem translated from Petrarch : The Triumph of Death.

This time MRM 's setting was fourteenth-century Rome. Rienzi was a friend of Petrarch .

In another collaborative venture, ENC joined with her brother Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and with David Parris in editing Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, 2009. (She had collaborated with Deirdre Serjeantson and...

Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John and Amelia Opie to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough...

The poems include an Ode to Genius (which implicitly claims that status), Petrarch to Laura (which woos a woman in a male voice), and a piece responding to Hannah Cowley 's expression of disbelief that...

She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...

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...

In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...

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...

The epigraph is a quotation from Milton 's Paradise Lost about not seeking to know the future. MS frames the story with a visit she made to the Sybil's Cave near Naples (though some have...