Samuel Rogers

This book began a fruitful partnership with London publisher Charles Tilt . It comprises about forty poems and songs and six copperplate etchings, her first attempts. It is dedicated, both in a poem...

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...

In England as in Scotland MR had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli and the writers Samuel Rogers , Richard Sharp , and Sir James Mackintosh ...

The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR 's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers (on the title-page) and Francis Bacon (in the text)—of the...

An advertisement (dated 13 April 1810) promises to delineate not only friendship's pleasures but all the great and heroic deeds inspired by it. Even love consists of friendship, when it is abstracted from the...

Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

Illustrated Poems by LHS , 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers .

The popularity of this formula had endured for generations, from Mark Akenside (The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744) and Thomas Warton (The Pleasures of Melancholy, 1747), through Samuel Rogers (The Pleasures...

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price , the poet Samuel Rogers , and the teacher...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...