Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | AH
published another novel, Eyeless in Gaza, titled with a quotation in which the hero of Milton
's Samson Agonistes laments his enslaved condition. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 357 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 278 Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 245 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aldous Huxley | Its womanizing protagonist, Mr Hutton, considers himself the Christ of Ladies (reversing, with what he supposes to be worldly wit, the supposed nickname of Milton
as the lady of Christ's). Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus. 3 |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutton | LH
draws on a wide range of sources to buttress her argument. These include the results of her reading—Milton
, and the story of the Greek Atalanta (whose male inventors, she says, were not... |
Education | Zora Neale Hurston | She also worked at the beginnings of her education. When she happened upon Milton
's Paradise Lost she devoured it, and she learned Gray
's Elegy in a Country Churchyard by heart in the course... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | The starting-point for the poem is the tradition (subtly questioned) of Sappho's suicide as an abandoned woman; this fact links the text to other responses to the topic by other women poets including Felicia Hemans |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hubback | CH
heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth
is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page quotes Milton
's Paradise Lost on conscience as the guide within. Helme, Elizabeth. Clara and Emmeline. G. Kearsley. title-page |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | Siddons was also an author: she published The Story of Our First Parents, Selected from Paradise Lost: For the Use of Young Persons, 1822 (to make Milton
accessible for her children), and left unpublished... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Milton
and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare
or Byron
or attributed only... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | JH
's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is... |
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