Torquato Tasso

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...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

SW 's choice of originals shows the catholicity of her tastes: on the one hand a Renaissance work (of which the standard English version was by John Hoole , 1763) and on the other Le...

The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

EPS has an eye for picturesque scenes, which she describes as set pieces as well as sketching as an artist. Examples are the group formed by a servant and a native each knee-deep in a...

Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. More importantly, Freya was close to her grandmother Madeleine Stark , who read...

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...