Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge.
8: 328
Alfred H. Miles
Standard Name: Miles, Alfred H.
Used Form: A. H. Miles
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Sarah Williams | A. H. Miles
included a selection of SW
's work in The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century and the introduction by A. H. Japp
describes her work as distinguished by originality, breadth... |
| Literary responses | Menella Bute Smedley | A generation later A. H. Miles
declared that MBS
was by nature a poet. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. 8: 328 |
| Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Alice Meynell
in a posthumous review of Rossetti's work in the New Review in 1895 argued for the artistic perfection of poems like The Three Enemies and Uphill, Advent, which exhibit a strong and... |
| Literary responses | A. Mary F. Robinson | Reviewers found in it a naiveté and artlessness which clearly pleased them. The Academy found the poems so natural sometimes with their faults and their freshness that they affect one like voices out of the... |
| Literary responses | A. Mary F. Robinson | Just a few years after the book was published, Alfred H. Miles
in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century praised it by saying how sweet and fresh and fine, simple and unstrained always... |
| Literary responses | A. Mary F. Robinson | Alfred H. Miles
in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century compared this volume to Robinson's earlier An Italian Garden, adding the somewhat dubious praise that the garden play was worth writing for... |
| Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The high opinions of many of AP
's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson
in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Hamilton King | Eric Robertson
in English Poetesses, 1883, suggested that HHK
's writings excelled those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
on the same topic in their truth and spontaneity. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 198 |
| Reception | May Kendall | MK
was the only woman chosen for the volume of humorous verse in Alfred H. Miles
's anthology entitled The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, published in 1898. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | Alfred Miles
writes in response to this poem that EH
is not merely an enthusiast or reformer; she is a Christian poet, penetrated with a poet's reverence for all that is fair in the past... |
| Reception | Emily Hickey | In 1891 Alfred Miles
included some of EH
's poetry in the eighth volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Remarkably, he chose her Beloved, It is Morn as the first... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
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.