William Blake

She opens with a disquisition on herself as being not a good traveller: easily seasick, not brave, and lacking a sense of direction. However, she says, her reminiscences are selected, to leap over the intervening...

The final spin is represented by 8 Home-Computer Terminal, which concludes with a startling evocation of Blake : Rose, thou art sick; a fatal error bugs thy memory banks.SK 's website demonstrates (as...

Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris , William Blake , [a]nd people I don't know; and books...

R. B. Kershner, Jr. (a James Joyce scholar) points out that Joyce read The Sorrows of Satan in 1905 and that the novel has a number of elements that [he] adapts to the form and...

Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis would address non-human beings as brothers. JK writes...

By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake , whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison . His acquaintance with artists increases. He...

Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

William Hayley helped CS publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at...

LCL was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan , to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...

His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake

They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams , the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture...

She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus , St Augustine