Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
123-4
Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed
reported that she found Milton
's Comus an intense and enduring delight.
qtd. in
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
124
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Anna Swanwick
Classicist and translator Philip Henry Wicksteed
, for one, felt that her general powers, and especially her command of metrical form, had so matured that the second part of Faust was more brilliant—even, to...
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