John Milton

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton 's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior 's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse).

The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on...

The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon . GHS quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid through Milton and Wordsworth

Anna's education was largely overseen by her parents. Before she was three she could recite passages from Milton 's L'Allegro and by nine the first three books of Paradise Lost.

AS was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. When she was fifteen Erasmus Darwin , who had formed a high opinion of the originality of her verses, took an opportunity while...

In metre and general tone it remembers Milton 's L'Allegro.

The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...

Within the next couple of days she read two more books by Wollstonecraft (along with works by Livy and Milton ). But she says nothing about these texts, or about the experience of reading them...

As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together...

The epigraph is a quotation from Milton 's Paradise Lost about not seeking to know the future. MS frames the story with a visit she made to the Sybil's Cave near Naples (though some have...

The villa was famous for a visit made there by the young Milton in 1639 and is still a literary landmark. They stayed first at Sécheron, then at Cologny. In July...

Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts and others have noted Sigourney's high reputation in her own day (the female Milton, the American Hemans, the sweet singer of Hartford, generally ranked higher than William Cullen Bryant

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

The tribute to Helena Mennie Shire is twofold. The Poet imagines the childhood of twentieth-century Scottish poet Olive Fraser , whose poetry Shire had collected in The Wrong Music and The Pure Account, and...