John Keats

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...

BE substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family...

As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire : Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

The narrator of this novel is a woman writer whose name is Jane, and who has a fussily loving sister called Ella. Jane is a Londoner, but, ill with neuritis (later described as consumption), she...

Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...

From the age of about seven DL had a sense of vocation, thinking of herself as an artist-person and as having a destiny. She aspired after fame from the time that she first read...

Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent...

NS 's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda , CAD describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats and Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas and...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

MD formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats . While she was at...

Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

When Thomas Moore read Psyche he expressed his pleasure to MT in a short lyric which calls her by the name of her protagonist, Psyche; at her death he eulogised her by the same...