Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
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Alfred H. Miles
Standard Name: Miles, Alfred H.
Used Form: A. H. Miles
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | Sarah' s father, Benjamin Flower
, was a political writer, a religious dissenter, and the editor and publisher of the Cambridge Intelligencer, which first published six of Coleridge
's early poems. In 1799 he... |
| Textual Production | L. S. Bevington | Until recently, comment on LSB
has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles
remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science. |
| Anthologization | L. S. Bevington | LSB
's poems have been widely anthologized, in such collections as Alfred H. Miles
' The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, and more recently in Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology,... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
rarely travelled far from her home in Lymington. After the death of her old nurse in 1824, she lived alone. Alfred H. Miles
speculates that her parents' deaths tended to strengthen her nervous... |
| Anthologization | Frances Power Cobbe | Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles
, begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such... |
| Publishing | Eliza Cook | EC
's Poems and Songs (one of many such editions and re-issues) appeared posthumously in volume 7 of Alfred H. Miles
's The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, as an indication of her ongoing currency. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Literary responses | Eliza Cook | But her death notice in the Englishwoman's Review noted that few of the rising generation would recognise her name, and (picking up on the language of the Times obituary) accounted for the fact that her... |
| Textual Production | Isa Craig | A posthumous volume of her Select Poems, edited and introduced by A. H. Japp
appeared in 1892 in Alfred H. Miles
's Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | A. H. Miles
included DMC
in his selection of women poets in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, published in the 1890s, with the following comment: Though lacking in the higher qualities... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Elliott | Shortly after CE
's death, the New York Evangelist claimed that writing Just as I am was a higher honour than to have worn a crown, “The Late Charlotte Elliott”. New York Evangelist, Vol. 46 , No. 42, p. 2. 46.42 (16 November 1871): 2 |
| Reception | Charlotte Elliott | In 1872, a year after Elliott's death, Octavio Winslow
published The King in His Beauty: A Tribute to the Memory of Miss C. E.Alfred H. Miles
included her best-known hymns (such as Just as... |
| Literary responses | Christina Fraser-Tytler | Alfred H. Miles
, in The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, recorded a particular appreciation for Absolution, a poem here about a married woman who accidentally encounters a lover from... |
| Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | Not much is known about INH
's early life or her life beyond her writing, except that she was born to Scottish and English parents of the professional class, who were Unitarians
. As Richard Garnett |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | Alfred H. Miles
wrote that Miss Hickey's poems embrace many varieties of form and theme, from lyrics of love and nature to ballads of modern life and blank verse discussions of politico-economic and socialistic questions... |
Timeline
1891: The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry...
Writing climate item
1891
The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, Alfred H. Miles
's 10-volume anthology with biocritical headnotes, appeared; the last was published in 1897.
Texts
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Hutchinson, 1897.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 1907.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland, 1986.