Homer

Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare —the highest position accorded to...

The introductory chapter opens with Mrs Seymour's two daughters running into difficulties with synchronicity. One is astonished that Homer and Solomon were at least near-contemporaries; the other could not think who was king of France...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

EKM went on from sailing as a girl at home to crewing for an English owner. At the beginning of 1922 her friend Miette acquired a 21-foot sloop named Perlette, which she and Kini sailed...

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...

The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft , and its epigraphs to...

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...

She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate ) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short...

In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern...

Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...

An introductory poem summarises desirable female qualities: Formed by the Graces, loveliness itself, / Come, with those downcast eyes sedate and sweet, / Those modest looks that deeply touch the soul. Having discussed her...

Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland and Edith Sitwell as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of...

AP published the long-awaited first four books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad.

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...