Ovid

EPW signed the preface to The Fable of Phaeton, translated from Ovid, published by Nichols with 1828 on the title-page.

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

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...

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

These two poems celebrate passionate love and loss experienced by fictional women, victimised by an unfeeling world; the first is a tour de force of ventriloquism, as Pope persuasively adopts a female voice. Pope's Eloisa...

Its tributes to earlier women poets are grounded in Portrait of the Poet as a Little Girl (a belated, oblique answer to James Joyce ), which concludes on the patrilineal prize / which she, disarmed...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...