Angela Leighton

Standard Name: Leighton, Angela

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Textual Features L. S. Bevington
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...
Textual Features A. Mary F. Robinson
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.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin.
7-9, 37
Textual Features Emily Brontë
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
1: 59
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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...
Textual Features Augusta Webster
A Castaway is AW 's single best-known work and has often been compared to Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's Jenny.
AW 's volume appeared in February, while Rossetti's Poems appeared later (it was reviewed by...
Textual Features Dora Greenwell
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...
Textual Production L. S. Bevington
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.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
9: 229
While he tarred her with...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
Although deteriorating in health, RMW contributed reviews and poetry to the Athenæum.
Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds state that she was poetry editor from 1904 to 1911, but this is not confirmed by more...

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