Percy Bysshe Shelley

Using rhetoric similar to that of abolitionists, Reid draws parallels between the plight of women and that of slaves. The title-page asks (in the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley ) Can man be free, if...

Quoting a phrase originally used by the seventeenth-century Thomas Fuller , she recalls how at the old slave mart people representing God's image, carved in ebony, were lined up like cattle for sale in most...

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference...

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...

The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English...

When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...

Farr quotes from a variety of sources, from the Book of the Dead and Iamblichus 's The Mysteries to Shelley 's Ozymandias. She also includes long fragments of the Gnostic papyrus...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

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...

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

George Meredith thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse...

The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...

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...

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,