John Milton

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...

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...

The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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...

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...

Fox describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem. However, scholar Richard Garnett pronounced less...

Mary Delany said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully s, Homer s, and Milton s. Though Homer and Cicero are connected chiefly with oral texts, the inclusion of Milton suggests that Delany...

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...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

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...

In the second volume the grown-up Theodora is living in London, a great reader, and acquainted with the royal family: she is impolite to the Princess Royal when the latter interrupts her reading of Milton

The last was Samuel Johnson 's nickname for her. He loved nicknames, and this had reference to three things: her brother's position as Chanter, her practice of poetry, and Milton 's address to the nightingale...

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the...