Philip Henry Wicksteed

Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante 's Paradiso had changed her life. Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed reported that she found Milton 's Comus an intense and enduring delight.

Classicist and translator Philip Henry Wicksteed , for one, felt that her general powers, and especially her command of metrical form, had so matured that the second part of Faust was more brilliant—even, to...

Her work was greeted with a chorus of praise from reviewers: the only quibble, from some, referred to her metrical choices. P. H. Wicksteed in the Saturday Review suggested that AS would advance the cause...