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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | CB
was praised for this volume both in Blackwood's (her publisher's own journal) and in the London Quarterly Review. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | John Wilson
's review for Blackwood's, March 1837, deemed the title poem an autobiography of the childhood of Genius. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 123 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The Critical Review approved the poem, but remarked that amelioration might do as well as abolition as a means of addressing the abuses it describes. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 65 (1788): 226 |
Literary responses | Jane Taylor | The Critical Review, quoting several poems in full, equally approved JT
's lively facility and her graver moral style, Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th ser. 4 (1816): 269 |
Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The same year Broadview Press
issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway
, engraved by Caroline Watson
, to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Smith | She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper
, William Hayley
, and George Romney
). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Fanshawe | In 1793, William Cowper
's friend Lady Hesketh
sent CF
a poem of Cowper's, with the request that she should not copy or circulate it. CF learned it by heart, then sent back the original... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | 1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter
and Hester Mulso Chapone
, William Cowper
, and a number of those men who later wrote... |
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