George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

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

She also published articles in the Atlantic Monthly between 1857 and 1879. She wrote of slavery and emancipation, and of domestic topics. Her Sojourner Truth . The Libyan Sybil appeared in April 1963, and The...

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

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

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

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...

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...

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...

She wrote this novel, she said, because she admired Byron 's poem Childe Harold, but thought it wanted a finish. (This was no wonder, since only the first two cantos had so far...

The country house which is the centre and almost the leading character of this novel was called in DW 's earliest working drafts The Manor and later Saunby (still used in the novel as published)...

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 first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

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...