John Donne

During CB 's lifetime Ben Jonson attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne eulogized her morals and also her wit.

A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...

This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...

It was published by John Lane in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York. Although PB had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from...

PB published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne 's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding , the lawyer on circuit.

Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry (1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill (The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions...

The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice (née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis , may have enabled Anne to meet...

Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne 's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury 's own Newes from Court. Details in the...

ALS wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems...