Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however...
Intertextuality and Influence
Alicia D'Anvers
This work in Hudibrastics
presents Oxford University
as a hotbed of misogyny and sexual misconduct, an enemy of the Muses, and a cynical tourist attraction. ADA
's opening address To the University (in heroic couplets...
Intertextuality and Influence
Teresia Constantia Phillips
TCP
placed on the title-page of her Apology a quotation from Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, the period's most famous treatment of a woman who is deserving although fallen. She later emphasises her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Hands
In Critical Fragments, on some of the English Poets (seven poets, all male), EH
wittily exercises an imitation which is far from flattery. She begins with Milton
, who in ponder'ous verse, moves greatly on...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Latter
The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!,
Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher, 1764.
1
it proceeds...
Textual Production
Caroline Clive
The name of the protagonist or hero is one CC
had herself used as a pseudonym. Her title-page has an epigraph from Sidney Smith
's letters: How little we know of what passes in each...
Textual Production
George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE
's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
Timeline
Later 8th century BC: This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's...
Writing climate item
Later 8th century BC
This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's Iliad, though few dates are more hotly argued over, and the very existence of Homer as a person who created (traditional, formulaic, oral) epic poems...
Just before 26 December 1663: Samuel Butler published Hudibras, a mock-heroic...
Writing climate item
Just before 26 December 1663
Samuel Butler
published Hudibras, a mock-heroic verse satire on the Puritans.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.