Percy Bysshe Shelley

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...

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...

UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

One of ESVM 's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie . Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley and Keats and...

Her title applies to human beings an image which Percy Shelley applied, in his Ode to the West Wind, to autumn leaves: like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Critic Peter J. Conradi calls this...

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

Clusters of poems in this volume bear epigraphs pointing to both Eastern and Western influences: The Flowering Year quotes Shelley , while The Peacock Lute and The Temple: A Pilgrimage of Love quote Omar Khayyàm

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...