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...

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...

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 widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil , Cicero , Lucretius , Horace ) and some in French (Rousseau , Voltaire , Marmontel , and Manon Roland ). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson .

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...

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 ....

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...

JW 's preface invokes Shakespeare , Virgil , Homer , and Sir Walter Scott (she later adds Thomas Percy ) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry

The Land irresistibly recalls Virgil 's Georgics, the poem which gave its name to the genre of which it remains the best-known example; indeed, for some time VSW intended to call her poem Georgics...

Virgil , once thought of, became the poem's tutelary deity. He supplies an epigraph. VSW opens in the epic manner—I sing the cycle of my country's year, / I sing the tillage—and...

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...

HC underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:...

The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil (in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story.

Perhaps JC 's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. She writes a story of A...

SP 's masterful use of early writers and mythical belief-systems is exemplified in Seven Horizon Poems. Each of the poems snatches a separate grain of meaning, pressing into service to do so a wide...