Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
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Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | In the year of publication Charles Pictet
translated Practical Education into French for serialisation in the influential periodical Bibliothèque Brittanique, published in Geneva by himself and his brother Marc-Auguste
. This began a campaign... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw... |
Literary responses | Sara Coleridge | This work was seen as an early indication of SC
's talents and promise. In the year of its publication her father
said My dear daughter's translation of this book is . . . unsurpassed. |
Literary Setting | Mary Howitt | Its contents, most or all previously published in annuals and periodicals, include ballads in various styles. The Lady Magdalene exemplifies the medieval and nostalgic: Lady Magdalene, a child, remains sole survivor except for one or... |
Occupation | Ralph Waldo Emerson | RWE
studied theology at Harvard
but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle
, Coleridge
, and Wordsworth
. Upon his return to America... |
Occupation | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co. 33 |
Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
Occupation | Walter Pater | While at Brasenose
, he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge
's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake |
politics | Robert Southey | Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge
to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and... |
politics | Leigh Hunt | LH
's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth |
Author summary | Sara Coleridge | Living in the shadow of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, SC
nevertheless became recognized in her own right as a talented writer during the first half of the nineteenth century. She began with translations... |
Author summary | Robert Southey | Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly... |
Publishing | Sara Coleridge | SC
wrote: No work is so inadequately rewarded either by money or credit as that of editing miscellaneous, fragmentary, immethodical literary remains like those of STC
. Such labours cannot be rewarded for they cannot... |
Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
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