Homer

As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins , Walter Benjamin , Homer , Keats ). The first...

Kate Summerscale writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up...

MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.

Initially entitled A Fight over the Body of Homer, it features a disagreement between two sisters, one of whom is reading Homer and hankering after a more fulfilling and actively heroic pursuit...

FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...

Despite the paucity of surviving material, Sappho (though not quite the earliest of the Greek lyric poets) is sometimes seen as heading the lyric tradition, as Homer heads the epic tradition.

In the twentieth century Sappho continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson

An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere...

AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)

Here she extended her already very considerable reading in English literature and philosophy, and in the Greeks from Homer and Æschylus . She also studied modern languages and several branches of mathematics and science.

ES shared the passions of her Romantic generation for medieval castles and for mountains. She recorded folk customs in Wales and again in the Lake District, where she found a general similarity to the...

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. The actual woman behind the story was Rebecca Berry, later Elton . The coat of arms of her...

The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.

The year after RS died, three strikingly different posthumous books by her appeared:Black Ships Before Troy. The Story of the Iliad, which retells Homer 's epic poem in novel form; The Minstrel and...