George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...

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...

Byron responded brilliantly in 1822 with The Vision of Judgment, which trounces the king and Southey with him.

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...

She quoted Byron and the Greek historian Thucydides on her title-page, and dedicated the poem to the Spirit of 'The Times'—that is, the newspaper. A letter to the editor of the Times...

After five years living in Greece, FS published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Isles of Greece, and Other Poems as Felicia Mary Frances Skene.

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

MS moved from Bagni di Lucca to Este and then to join her husband in Venice, where he had gone to visit Byron .

PBS published his long poem Queen Mab, following quickly on Byron 's The Giaour.

The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley , their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont , Byron , and Dr John W. Polidori . Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore...

Percy Shelley had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817. She dedicated the printed...

The presentation copy of Frankenstein, first edition, which MS inscribed To Lord Byron , from the Author, turned up among the papers of the Labour politician Douglas Jay. It is only the second...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...