Ovid

EB shares the Scriblerian enthusiasm for mixing genres. She presents To Proteus, The Indisputable God of Change as A Dedication of the foregoing Poem, as a revolutionary Epistle, that shall still more accomplish'dly beautify never-indolent...

The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid and imitated by Chaucer , Robert Louis Stevenson , and others, and popularly called Go, little book...

PW 's poetry is technically adept; collected, it adapts the standard language of sentimentality and protest into a dignified and individual voice. She celebrates liberty of various kinds, praises the work of a black artist...

Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender...

One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

It may have been as an undergraduate that CM began writing work that was later published. His several translations from Latin included love-poetry by Ovid . He soon moved on from poetry to drama, and...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

JCM (formerly Judith Cowper), like almost all of her relations, was a frequent writer of occasional poetry. Most of her surviving poems, and all the major ones, date from about 1720-8, that is from either...

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

The book, edited by Philip Terry and published in London by Chatto and Windus , brought together nineteen distinguished contributors from around the world, whose approaches to Ovid vary considerably.

Men, she says, should never be trusted without testing first; they have learned deception from Ovid . She likens them, with telling gender-reversal, to mermaids luring sailors to their doom, and again she provides a...

DM writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...