Edmund Spenser

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

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...

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...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

MEB 's first publications included verse in The Beverley Recorder. A patron, John Gilby , volunteered to underwrite the production and publication of a volume of her poetry, stipulating that the principal piece should...

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

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...

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

JEC prefaced her poem with a quatrain of her own (the only original poetry by her which Richard Garnett knew of). Addressing Una (presumably as a character standing, as does Spenser 's personage of that...

LAC set up (in her mother 's name) a memorial to the poet Spenser in Westminster Abbey.

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse. Her...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

The title-page quotes Milton on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has...

She divided her life into five stages, supplying a motto for each stage, in Latin, French, and English. The English motto, for the final stage, came from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Be bold...