William Shakespeare

Arguably Hardy's most melodramatic novel, The Return of the Native closes with a happy ending requested by the magazine editor. In a preface to a later edition, Hardy compared the story to Shakespeare 's King Lear.

Fire, addressed to Yeats and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare (Does not our life consist of the four elements?), is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...

The family attends the funeral of Mirabeau ; they are still in France at the onset of the dreadful events of September 1793: the beginning of the Terror. The medallion is...

Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God...

Its setting is Catford Street, an ordinary, poor street in shabby postwar London, and the elegant Square round the corner. Its protagonist is a child waif, Lovejoy Mason; RG 's theme is the childhood...

Her dedicatee was a bookstore owner in Nashville, Tennessee, where he involved himself in the Civil Rights movement in 1960. (His son Richard is known as a writer). RT uses three epigraphs: from St John of the Cross

The story begins where many novels end: with the happiness of the eponymous heroine as she reaches the age of eighteen as a virtuous, well-educated heiress, married by her own choice to Count Harton. Her...

A different third-person narrator replaces the somewhat pompous gentleman of An Antidote. The book's subect is the relations between the two Placid women, mother and daughter, and the squire's family, the Bustles (who are...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

The Address explains how EW set out with the lofty and pleasurable intention of aiding the poor in the Isle of Thanet, how the playhouse was all set to open to a capacity audience...

Her theatrical memoirs are unchronological, unsorted, anecdotal, and vivid. She enjoys relating clashes or conflicts in which she comes out on top. She describes herself as solidly patriotic, though not one of the Union-Jack-waving Britishers...

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

Many poems here are about the Welsh countryside, or are based on personal memories. Along with her foremothers, GC salutes other influences in LLŷr, titled from the Welsh name of the ancient British King...

This novel is both social history and satire, covering territory similar to that of Virginia Woolf 's The Years and May Sinclair 's The Tree of Heaven. Like these, it traces the lives of...