Edmund Spenser

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

The new Juvenilia Press edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...