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Literary responses | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would... |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton. 129 |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | 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 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | But the anxiety evident in EBB
's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier
, the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread... |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt
, reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey
style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Literary responses | Aphra Behn | The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB
trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto. 126 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Literary responses | Lady Jane Cavendish | Starr
pronounced in 1931: As a literary production, The Concealed Fansyes is practically without value.He noted its general and specific indebtedness to Ben Jonson
, asserted a likeness between its pair of brothers and... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Jones | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
published, anonymously, a long poem entitled Creation, and Other Poems: To Which Are Added, the Bowers of Happiness, a Vision, and an Essay on Sacred Poetry, which she claimed to have written without... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications. 34 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | The title-page quotes Milton
on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has... |
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