Gray, Christian. Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse. Printed for the author by Oliver and Boyd.
William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
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Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leadbeater | This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page quotes Langhorne
and the first chapter-heading William Cowper
. Despite its related material, this story is more bland than The Cousins. The hero, Walsingham, appears in England as the ward of Sir... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare
or Cowper
. This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | In Mansfield Park the heroine is a Romantic in her sensibilities: an admirer of Cowper
, passionately devoted to her brother, stoical in her endurance of cold but vividly alive to the suffering of others... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page again quotes Cowper
. This novel treats, in realistic style, a number of hot issues: sense and sensibility, the importance of marriage choice, and female financial dependence on male relatives who tend to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Taylor Gilbert | The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | CG
says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | She opens the essay with a sharp and witty caricature of others' representations of unmarried women: they have, it is true, gained much both socially and æsthetically in passing from the traditionary type—the withered prude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More
's Coelebs... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
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