Virgil

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.

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-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...

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...

Many of CPT 's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton . Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil , Izaak Walton , Mary Russell Mitford , and Gilbert White .

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:...