Edmund Spenser

To educate herself further, she read widely, setting herself literary exercises, writing verse imitating or dramatising Chaucer , Spenser , and Browning . However, she writes that at that time, I had read no really...

However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris , she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott , Shakespeare

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

From 1878 to 1880, she took classes on Dante 's Divine Comedy at University College, London , perhaps in part because she was helping Alexander Grosart to trace references from Italian poets for his edition...

The future MR was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton , Pope , Spenser , Shakespeare ...

Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP later, a...

In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly...

FID turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow , and when Lord Raglan is dead and many officers...

Meanwhile Orlando establishes a relationship of friendship and equality with Viola Cash, a young woman who embodies intelligence, practicality, and activity as well as beauty. She supports improved education for women, and is not afraid...

She takes her title from the name of the knight of Justice in Spenser 's The Faerie Queen, whom she quotes in an epigraph on the title page. The publication was written in response...

In tribute to Jones's work, FN invokes the character of Una (symbol of truth, foe to error) from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene in her bid to inspire others to take on similar religious work...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

After this success Caroline began on a Romantic narrative poem in Spenser ian stanzas, set in America, to be called Amouida and Sebastian; but she did not finish it.

MT 's prose preface acknowledges her debt, early in the poem, to Apuleius ' version of the Psyche story. She says she chose the Spenserian stanza because she loved Spenser ; she found it difficult...

Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire...