Isobel Armstrong

Later critical readings of Dionysius the Areopagite are rare. In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong describes the title poem's ostensible story of Christian conversion as featuring a vision of an egalitarian...

AH 's work has been sporadically reprinted. She is one of the poets included in Annie Hone 's 1891 collection The Children's Casket: Favourite Poems for Recitation, along with Jean Ingelow , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Isobel Armstrong , in a rare recent comment on AH (which attributed to her strong working-class connections), has judged her exceptional in producing orthodox-seeming work with unusual subtexts. Another notable exception to...

Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB 's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...

Despite her very high reputation, particularly as a poet, in her own day, MB quickly disappeared from the literary horizon following her death. Disregard of the political aspects of her poetry led to serious misreading...