Edmund Spenser

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...