Athenæum. J. Lection.
1428 (1855): 290
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Textual Features | Emily Brontë | 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... |
Textual Features | Harriet Downing | 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... |
Textual Features | Fanny Kemble | 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... |
Textual Features | Dorothea Gerard | 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... |
Textual Features | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1428 (1855): 290 |
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 | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
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... |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | On Byron
's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 65 |
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