Angela Leighton

Until recently, comment on LSB has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science. While he tarred her with...

Although deteriorating in health, RMW contributed reviews and poetry to the Athenæum.

Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets also muses on the incompatibility of feminism and religion. LSB likens marriage to slavery (that most common of first-wave feminist motifs) in Bees in Clover. She uses poetic repetition and...

An Oasis, according to critics Leighton and Reynolds , is one of those nineteenth-century artist-and-model poems which so sceptically and intelligently analyse the process of the male gaze which wipes out the woman's individuality...

The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer engraving.

The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...

In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy.

MEC 's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake . Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is...

A Castaway is AW 's single best-known work and has often been compared to Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's Jenny.

The volume opens with Christina, which relates the sad history of a fallen woman. Choosing this woman's voice for first-person narration (though she is not the person named in the poem's title) is...

Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...

As Katharine had feared, once MF 's true identity became known, their work received less attention, and critical enthusiasm waned.Angela Leighton argues that Field's insistence on publishing largely unperformable verse tragedies probably...

FH was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans in her early attempt to...

William R. Hughes provided for the Midland Naturalist a review of this book which CN called kind.. The Woman's World (edited by Oscar Wilde ) gave the book one of its several...

Parkes acknowledged that she considered poetry not as an intellectual luxury but a very real national influence. Perhaps taking that as a hint, anthologists Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds note that BRP 's poetry...