Edmund Spenser

This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate , Spenser , Sainte-Palaye , William Hayley , and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic.

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...

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...

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...

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

The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce , and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...

In a twenty-page introduction, SH explains what this poem meant for him. He discusses its diction, and the way that fragments of its language have survived, embedded in, for instance, the speech of Heaney's own...

James Montgomery , editor of the Sheffield paper the Iris, helped with encouragement and advertising. He printed the poetry volume at the Iris office in Sheffield, with a ruined-abbey frontispiece and a title-page...

The title-page quotes from Spenser , and the first chapter from Johnson 's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...

The volume is suffused with lament for the plight of Ireland past and present, as in the Dirge for All Ireland. 1581. This was the second year of the brutal colonising campaign of the...

A Bad Beginning's title-page quotes Spenser , on the wrongness of binding in love those whom God has not ordained for each other. As every English reader would have expected, the French marriage of...

The last novel by the nearly ninety-year-old KSM , Molly Montague's Love Story, appeared at London with the National Society's Depository . She headed it, like her first book, with a quotation from Spenser

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...