Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
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Textual Features | L. E. L. | LEL's work was more varied, particularly in the miscellaneous poetry attached to such collections prefaced by longer poems, than has been recognized. Although much of her poetry does invoke sentiment, there is also a strongly... |
Textual Features | Margaret Holford | The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press. 1: 59 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | According to its editor Julia Markus
, the poem constitutes one of the most detailed accounts of Florence in 1847 and 1849, and it interweaves with that political history of a nation-in-the-making a deeply personal... |
Textual Features | Lady Caroline Lamb | Using as a foundation her affair with Byron
(not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL
tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass
thinks the fourteen lyrics included in... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | Writing beyond the ending of Childe Harold is indicative of the special place that Byron
holds in relation to CG
's work. She often quotes his poetry in influential positions, and she plays variations on... |
Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella)
, widow of the poet... |
Residence | Mary Shelley | MS
moved from Bagni di Lucca to Este and then to join her husband
in Venice, where he had gone to visit Byron
. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 226-7 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xvii Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 157-8 |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
Reception | Lady Caroline Lamb | From the date of Byron's death, LCL
lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin
, whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as... |
Reception | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Reception | Augusta Ada Byron | The most famous literary response to Ada was penned by her father, Lord Byron
, in the opening lines to the Third Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Is thy face like thy mother's, my... |
Reception | Mary Renault | After completing Return to Night (published in 1947), MR
spent six months researching a novel about the life of Byron
. She abandoned the project when she became aware that previously unpublished correspondence between Byron... |
Reception | Henry Handel Richardson | The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author. Child, Harold H. “Ultima Thule”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1407, p. 42. 42 |
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