Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 363-92. 388n1
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge
well enough to entertain him at her house, although he had already written parodies of her sonnet style. Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 363-92. 388n1 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Coleridge
(though he was later respectful of CS
's sonnets) was surely aiming at her in his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnet parodies in the Monthly Magazine. Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 363-92. 363, 381 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Coleridge
, in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named CS
and William Lisle Bowles
as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 266 |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
Dedications | Edith Sitwell | She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge
. Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Unlike a volume by the same title which she published in 1827, this one included new poetry as well as former contributions to magazines. Her preface mentions the influence exercised over her by Coleridge
... |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | The reviewer drew parallels between DS
's naïveté and that of Coleridge
. Sigerson, Dora, and Katharine Tynan. The Sad Years. Constable. end-pages |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
Instructor | Mary Shelley | MS
and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge
's lectures at the Royal Institution |
Textual Features | Sappho | They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic... |
Textual Production | Berta Ruck | BR
published Ancestral Voices, last in her series of autobiographical novels set in Wales, and the last publication of her long writing career. The title comes from Coleridge
's Kubla Khan, whose... |
Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford
read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | ER
claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | F. Mabel Robinson | The title-page bears a quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Love about a fiend with the appearance of an angel beautiful and bright. Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Methuen. title-page |
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