William Blake

Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis would address non-human beings as brothers. JK writes...

By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake , whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison . His acquaintance with artists increases. He...

Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

KT stays with Irish mythology in The Fairy Babe, about a mother whose baby has been replaced by fairies with a changeling child. She figures Ireland in the body of the generous Kathleen who...

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

Again, the title of this volume recalls Blake : his Songs of Innocence and Experience, which appeared by 1794 incorporating the contents of the earlier Songs of Innocence.

The book is dedicated to her elder sister, Letitia Fairfield . Its title comes from Blake 's Proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, quoted on the title page: The cistern...

The title is from The Gates of Paradise by William Blake , which describes the unnameable God as The lost traveller's dream under the hill.

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre.

As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...

ASB later recalled the 1960s as a time of desire to be perpetual children, signified by wearing baby doll dresses and oh-so-innocent daisies as well as by quoting Blake . One of her seminal experiences...