George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...

The epigraph to the volume is from Moore 's Loves of the Angels. AT was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans , but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...

The poem represented the dead monarch as vindicated by the divine power after his death. It referred to Byron , without naming him, as the leader of those devilish, subversive writers whose works breathe the...

This volume includes Petrarchan sonnets, landscape description in blank verse, quatrain lyrics, personal poems, ballads, patriotic odes, a prose narrative, prologues, epilogues, and a poem on the death of Byron . EC 's strengths are...

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...

Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...