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Alfred H. Miles
Standard Name: Miles, Alfred H.
Used Form: A. H. Miles
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Isa Craig | A posthumous volume of her Select Poems, edited and introduced by A. H. Japp
appeared in 1892 in Alfred H. Miles
's Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. |
| Textual Production | L. S. Bevington | Until recently, comment on LSB
has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles
remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 9: 229 |
| Reception | Sarah Williams | A. H. Miles
included a selection of SW
's work in The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century and the introduction by A. H. Japp
describes her work as distinguished by originality, breadth... |
| Reception | Charlotte Elliott | In 1872, a year after Elliott's death, Octavio Winslow
published The King in His Beauty: A Tribute to the Memory of Miss C. E.Alfred H. Miles
included her best-known hymns (such as Just as... |
| Reception | Emily Hickey | In 1891 Alfred Miles
included some of EH
's poetry in the eighth volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Remarkably, he chose her Beloved, It is Morn as the first... |
| Reception | May Kendall | MK
was the only woman chosen for the volume of humorous verse in Alfred H. Miles
's anthology entitled The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, published in 1898. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 |
| Publishing | Eliza Cook | EC
's Poems and Songs (one of many such editions and re-issues) appeared posthumously in volume 7 of Alfred H. Miles
's The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, as an indication of her ongoing currency. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Literary responses | Menella Bute Smedley | A generation later A. H. Miles
declared that MBS
was by nature a poet. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. 8: 328 Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. 8: 328 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Elliott | Shortly after CE
's death, the New York Evangelist claimed that writing Just as I am was a higher honour than to have worn a crown, “The Late Charlotte Elliott”. New York Evangelist, Vol. 46 , No. 42, p. 2. 46.42 (16 November 1871): 2 |
| Literary responses | Christina Fraser-Tytler | Alfred H. Miles
, in The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, recorded a particular appreciation for Absolution, a poem here about a married woman who accidentally encounters a lover from... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | Alfred H. Miles
wrote that Miss Hickey's poems embrace many varieties of form and theme, from lyrics of love and nature to ballads of modern life and blank verse discussions of politico-economic and socialistic questions... |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | Alfred Miles
writes in response to this poem that EH
is not merely an enthusiast or reformer; she is a Christian poet, penetrated with a poet's reverence for all that is fair in the past... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Hamilton King | Eric Robertson
in English Poetesses, 1883, suggested that HHK
's writings excelled those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
on the same topic in their truth and spontaneity. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 198 |
| Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The high opinions of many of AP
's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson
in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who... |
Timeline
1891: The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry...
Writing climate item
1891
The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, Alfred H. Miles
's 10-volume anthology with biocritical headnotes, appeared; the last was published in 1897.
Texts
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Hutchinson, 1897.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 1907.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland, 1986.