Napoleon I Emperor of France

JW uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon ...

Several poems address national political issues, and most of those in this volume express a hatred of war, usually from the point of view of bereaved women. Written at the commencement of the year 1813...

After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...

The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...

As the title implies, this was written on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld 's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, though it also rebukes what AG would have seen as Barbauld's defeatism and failure of...

The plot, which has many twists and complications, is quasi-historical since it centres around Napoleon just before he becomes Emperor. The other central character is a royalist, the marquis de Tallemont, who runs the restaurant...

Here, FT argues that the unavailability of divorce causes both social evil and personal unhappiness. She links the right to divorce to the God-given right to freedom exemplified and promoted by the French Revolution, and...

A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great (representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles the sculptor (Genius). This piece...

Her first diary entry reads in full: Set out from Charles Street at four o'clock; slept at the Blue Posts at Witham. This earliest journal, covering MB 's first visit abroad, savours...

Here MS found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns...

GS left Coppet, eluding Napoleon 's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm.

During the brief interval of peace AO travelled to Paris with her husband , hoping to see Napoleon , whom she then admired.

In the first winter of her widowhood AD went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann ). This voyage...

She later lived in several places in Germany, before returning to France during the reign of Napoleon .

Ports of call on the voyage included Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the island of St Helena, where Elizabeth Smith visited Napoleon 's tomb.