George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

The poem, called a burlesque epic by the author, details the life and adventures, and tragical death of Merlin the tomcat. (The title Childe, famously used in Byron 's Childe Harold...

When Lady Gertrude leaves for the London season, Fanny's parents note a change in their daughter. Dame Fairfield complains that Fanny goes moping and peaking about, and don't set to nothin' with a good heart...

MEB was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...

The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...

Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron in...

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

George Croly in the Dublin Review also focused on FB 's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the...

In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume...

She quotes L. E. L. on her title page, and dedicates her work (these early efforts of my timid Muse) to Princess Augusta Sophia . A preface by an unnamed male friend...

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years. Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...

Byron and Wordsworth were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey 's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L.

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.

In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB ...

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...