Virgil

Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB : England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland...

Oscar Wilde offered slightly faint praise. AS , he wrote, had tried to guide modern readers through Dante's great poem as Virgil guided Dante through the afterworld, and her modest literary guide-book was unlike many...

Critic Jacqueline M. Labbe has discussed the first poem in this volume, Saham Gardens (at Saham Toney in Norfolk). She approved AF 's claiming the garden for specifically female power and delighting in her...

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

The poem, appropriately, is written in heroic couplets. Its opening boldly echoes Virgil only to distance itself from the project of the Aeneid: Arms and the men for deeds of arms renown'd ....

She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death...

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland) opens: I won't go back to it. Yet in...

The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...

The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. The actual woman behind the story was Rebecca Berry, later Elton . The coat of arms of her...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

Dryden 's Virgil translation supplies an epigraph for the title-page. An authorial Advertisement, apologetic in tone, says the book will be realistic, moral, and well-intentioned. Louisa Jenkins writes the first letter while staying with her...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

Sometimes ET sets out to shock the reader, as when she remarks that Pilate is her favourite biblical character: the model of a detached, fair, and judicious colonial governor. Sometimes she writes persuasively, as...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...