Alfred H. Miles

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...

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...

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...

A generation later A. H. Miles declared that MBS was by nature a poet. Although Miles faulted her earlier poems for their tendency to mysticism, he claimed that many of her...

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, and Theron Brown and...

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...