Thomas Gray

In her introduction AM faults Gray 's Elegy, which she calls so near to the work of genius as to be most directly, closely, and immediately rebuked by genius.

John Wordsworth later singled out AM 's article on Thomas Gray (published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which...

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

Under her own name ECW published her final novel, Youth on the Prow (whose title is quoted from Thomas Gray ), again in three volumes.

LEB kept the first of her journals to survive, prefaced with lines adapted from Thomas Gray 's Elegy in a Country Churchyard about the short and simple annals of the poor.

AP translated and published Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent, between the Years 1785 and 1794 by Frederick Matthisson , which included three letters by Thomas Gray .

This time the title comes from Thomas Gray . Sir Leslie Stephen was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine.

The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...

MM 's poems here include those from the Gentleman's Magazine, sweepingly revised. There is, however, contrary to rumour, no specific internal or external evidence to suggest that Johnson had any hand in the revision...

In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...

The poem begins by confronting those surly cynics who say women are incapable of true friendship. She allows that Woman is confined to a narrow sphere, her virtues hidden from the public gaze...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...

In On the Welsh Language, KP praises the early British queen Boadicea and anticipates something of the tone of Thomas Gray 's The Bard. It is unlikely that she learned Welsh (though her...

Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...