John Milton

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante 's Paradiso had changed her life. Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed reported that she found Milton 's Comus an intense and enduring delight.

Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton , Gray , Edward Young . She imitates Pope on solitude, writes first of James Hervey 's...

Nor was this AS 's only opportunity to marry. In 1742 she was approached with an ardent love-letter (likening her to Milton 's Eve as she first strikes love into the heart of Adam) by...

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...

The many editions of CS 's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...

Wordsworth chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton 's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of...

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. But...

SS wrote a few poems during her childhood: she began writing poetry again in about 1924. Her note on Satan Speaks, a pastiche of Milton , says it was written in 1925, though unpublished...

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

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 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...

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...