George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle...

EC employed couplets, stanzas, and blank verse to address her African, Oriental, pastoral, medieval, and contemporary subjects; the one non-exotic tale is best, but all have dash and vigour. A battle-ballad sounds Byron

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

Miss Middleton's new Polish home is half-palace, half-cottage; her new pupil, Anulka Zielinska, is a precocious, delicate ten-year-old. Anulka's father is dead, her mother is a cadaverous invalid, and her sister Jadwiga is nine years...

The business of these poems is to heroicize the British soldiers fighting in Crimea, in such lines as They fell, but died not—heroes cannot die. The verses make frequent use of...

In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac...

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...

Of the hundred lyrics and sonnets, several cover topics of romance: My soul grows faint, my veins run liquid flame, / And my bewildered spirit seems to swim / In eddying whirls of passion, dizzily...

Shorter pieces include The River, Two Maidens, and The Hidden Wound. Lota, the last and longest in the collection, is a narrative poem in blank verse. It is most heavily indebted...

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...