Edmund Spenser

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

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.

For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert , calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser ian stanzas (CN listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the...

Opening in Milton ic tones of high seriousness but in Spenser ian stanzas, the poem offers up childhood as the last echo of Eden spared to humanity after the fall. The sustained trope is that...

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...

Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .

She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. Her title-page quotes from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...

Spenser published Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's Lay, together with his own Astrophel, in his Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.

The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...