Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spark's interest in Mary Shelley had first been aroused by reading Ariel, André Maurois' life of Percy Shelley . She said later that writing this book against time for economic reasons and at the...

The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their...

UM 's title and epigraph are taken from a line by Shelley : The desire of the moth for the star, signifying an unattainable love-object. Her volume was introduced by Philip Sherlock , who drew...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

A number of HEW 's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley , Byron , Eliza Cook

The collection also contained homages to George Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley .

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

In this historically-based essay CD sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. She begins with the worship of the female principle in ancient Egypt, Greece...

The title of A Sensitive Plant comes from the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley : his sensitive plant, too, is human, in his case a male poet. The sensitive character depicted...

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...