Virgil

The protagonist of The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is a woman in her fifties whose husband and grown children have all abandoned her. Her own somewhat grumpy impressions of her newly single life...

The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva , as Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

This time her title-page quotation comes from Virgil .

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...

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...

Her title-page quotes Thomson on the young mind fed by the light of truth, and Virgil on being made a poet. The book cost half a crown and was sold by the author herself at...

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...

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) published the first of her small, Elsevir-format editions of classical authors (written in Latin throughout): the works of Virgil , as P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Nunc emendatiora.

Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer (from whom as an old...

The poems in SH 's collection Seeing Things resound with echoes of Virgil .

The title refers to, and applies to poems about, family relationships (often those spanning generations), literary relatedness over still larger spans of time, and links between the human and other parts of the creation. In...

Further disconnected tales accumulate, one contrasting two priests, Father Coeurdroit (or Goodheart), who serves the poor rather than the Church, and Father Predatore, whose name is self-explanatory. The flow is finally interrupted by Proteus placing...

In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil ian epic.

AI praises both her father and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh . Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having...