Jean Racine

Her poetry includes discussion of such serious subjects as time and work, devotional poems, biblical paraphrase, an imitation of neoclassical tragedian Jean Racine , pieces to mark specific occasions such as births and deaths, and...

Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant , Heine , Pascal , Racine , and Voltaire . Among English authors, she admired George Meredith (Modern Love))...

RT and her English teacher assumed that she would do A level exams at Crofton Grange and then try for a place at Oxford: she needed only to work harder at Latin. But...