George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

The Athenæum compared this novel favourably to the work of Jane Austen , saying that HM outstripped her predecessor in creating characters of a higher order of mental force and spiritual attainment, and offering to...

The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.

Byron disparaged what he judged to be Rosa's absurd and incomprehensible prose in masquerade in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, published in March 1809, linking her to the Della Cruscans . She...

De Staël is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Her lover Benjamin Constant defended Morgan from attack, and Morgan's own friend Lady Charleville , who had previously...

In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume...

Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning...

Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...

Croker , who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics who, according to the Morning Chronicle, were thrown into a STATE of FURY...

Byron praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...

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...

Norma Clarke sees in this late work some of FH 's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of...

The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf , who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend...

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 . This combination, he...

This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...

This first poetic attempt was well received.H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...