Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

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...

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...

In the year of publication Charles Pictet translated Practical Education into French for serialisation in the influential periodical Bibliothèque Brittanique, published in Geneva by himself and his brother Marc-Auguste . This began a campaign...

This work was seen as an early indication of SC 's talents and promise. In the year of its publication her father said My dear daughter's translation of this book is . . . unsurpassed.

Mary Russell Mitford read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural...

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...

Coleridge thought the poem anticlimactic, but exclaimed, but the Metre—ay! that Woman has an Ear! Of other poems of hers this year in various venues he remarked: She overloads every thing; but I never...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote To Matilda Betham from a Stranger (later published privately), wishing that she might be as impassioned as Sappho —but holier and happier.

Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt , Coleridge , and Schlegel .

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...

On her deathbed MR regretted that most of her works had been composed in too much haste, and declared that if, against all expectation, she should survive, she would begin a new long work...

The Illustrations catapulted HM into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet .Christian Isobel Johnstone in...

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...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...