Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Critical Review noticed this as the interesting, well realised work of an author already known to the public as an ingenious writer, though not always correct either in her sentiments or her style.

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...

Of MK 's sixteen novels, Together and Apart is the one most firmly set in the novelist's own time period. The female protagonist, Betsy Canning, like Agatha of The Ladies of Lyndon, feels her...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

Unlike a volume by the same title which she published in 1827, this one included new poetry as well as former contributions to magazines. Her preface mentions the influence exercised over her by Coleridge ...

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...

DW 's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth and Coleridge , filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...

ER claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she...

AJV is remarkably successful in catching Coleridge 's diction and manner, as several commentators noted. Lord Leoline sat in the chair of pride, / The white-armed stranger by his side. She also captures the sinister...

The title-page bears a quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Love about a fiend with the appearance of an angel beautiful and bright. In the novel, set in Ireland, politics are a constant...