Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Alfred H. Miles
Standard Name: Miles, Alfred H.
Used Form: A. H. Miles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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,... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
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.