George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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...

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 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...

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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...

MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold. She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...

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...

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...

She had begun writing the title poem (pages 3-77 when printed) while at boarding school. She dedicated the volume to Lord Holland and quoted Byron on the title page.

FT wrote her first publicly circulated poem, Lines Written on the Burial of the Daughter of a Celebrated Author in memory of Lord Byron 's illegitimate daughter Allegra .

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...

HW had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron , for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...