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...

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...

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

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

She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? She approaches...

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...

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...

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....

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

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

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...