Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, p. xiii - xxiv.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | The letters are unaffected and moral, but tend to look favourably on suicide. The first, from Eleanora, is dated 19 May 1770. She writes to Maria of her growing love for Werter, who seems to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma
that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, p. xiii - xxiv. xix |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR
's preface to this sequence... |
Literary responses | Anne Locke | Charles A. Huttar
has praised AL
's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons
calls the sonnets her most... |
Literary responses | Mary Tighe | Their editor Harriet Kramer Linkin
calls these poems often unsettling and unsettled,pulsating with the frustrated energies of unfulfilled Petrarchan
desire voiced from a complex feminine position. Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin. |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wroth | Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
has summarised LMW
's achievement (her historical importance and the quality of her art) like this: Wroth reinvented the Petrarch
an lyric sequence, the romance, and the pastoral drama, claiming those genres... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY
as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 71 |
Literary responses | Catherine Carswell | Some reviewers accused her of disparaging Petrarch
. The book did not sell well (which she blamed in part on her chosen publishers having a reputation for left-wing politics), but it was chosen Book of... |
Literary Setting | Lady Charlotte Bury | Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB
: England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland... |
Author summary | Anna Hume | AH
was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft
, for publication and herself translated Petrarch
into English verse. |
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