McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon, 1996.
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George Gordon sixth Baron Byron
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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Martha Fowke | Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
. |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 333 |
| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron
's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd, with revisions, Oxford University Press, 1956. Carew, Dudley. “Folly’s Handbook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1331, 4 Aug. 1927, p. 532. 532 |
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and... |
| Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
| Literary responses | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington
declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron
's much-quoted... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
| Literary responses | Laurence Hope | The Garden of Káma proved extremely popular, and was reissued in each of the next fourteen years under various combinations of the two titles (with later editions tending to lose the accent in Káma)... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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
... |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 202 |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Byron
, in a letter to Murray
by 30 September 1816, praised The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy as a good poem—very, and he echoed it in Canto 4 of Childe... |
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