Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken , Coleridge , and W. H. Davies , the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

The Critical Review noticed this as the interesting, well realised work of an author already known to the public as an ingenious writer, though not always correct either in her sentiments or her style.

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...

A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge

Poems about university experience confront the anxious recent schoolgirl, trying to feel like the undergraduate she now is, with the cleaning woman who in her turn is anxious to share the superior practical wisdom of...

The poem deals with an actual event that occurred at Reading Gaol : the execution of a soldier, Charles Thomas Woolridge , for wife murder. The narrator presents himself as one of the band of...

MEC 's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake . Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is...

Yeats admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...

MMB said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. It also brought compliments of some distinguished persons and two tributary effusions from writers from profession: Mr J. (apparently Edward Jerningham ) and...

AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...