John Keats

The Spectator greeted this collection effusively as without question the most promising of any first appearance in this century, except that of Keats , and the Saturday Review asserted, presumably with reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL 's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile. However, the poet Alfred Noyes (a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...

Holyoake , the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD 's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought...

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...

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...

Through this experience she met the literary biographer Robert Gittings . She built with him a professional partnership to work on interpretations of John Keats and Thomas Hardy , of whom Gittings was writing biographies...

She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter and published in later 1976. Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF noted that she...

PBS had Adonais, his elegy on the death of Keats , printed at Pisa. He sent a copy of this edition to John Gisborne on this date. The poem was printed at London...

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

DW 's next novel, Creatures of an Hour, which also appeared in 1933 (title adapted from a love-poem by Keats ), was her last before she switched, in 1934, her publisher from Ernest Benn

The volume was published in a limited edition of 680. A translucent interleaf bearing words from Keats 's Ode to Psyche: . . . A casement ope at night / To let...

It was then eighteen months since the failure of Switzerland. Mitford's hard-heartedness towards her was juxtaposed with pity for Keats , whom she believed to be dying as a result of the Quarterly's...

MH 's biographer Joy Dunicliff credits her with introducing the reading public to both Keats and Gaskell .

These are highly literary poems. In her preface MS invokes Keats . She writes on mythological topics, both Biblical (Eve, Cain, Mary) and classical (Icarus, Persephone). She titles poems with an eye to her predecessors...

Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for...