William Blake

Unlike LSB 's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...

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...

This book was welcomed by its first critics as a magnum opus of undeniable significance.Jacob Bronowski defined its purpose as the establishment of Blake 's thought as part of the classical tradition of anti-materialist...

This provoked intense debate between DL and Robert Duncan . He felt impelled to tell her, I feel that revolution, politics, making history, is one of the great falsehoods—is [Blake 's] Orc in his...

In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

Yet suffrage did not cease to be her goal. She was instrumental, after the passing of the Representation of the People Act giving the vote to women over thirty in February 1918, in getting the...

The Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, began in 1964 to issue MA 's portfolios jointly produced with artist Charles Pachter . In 1966 it published fifteen copies each of: Speeches for...

Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All...

In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error...

The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...

A second edition of MW 's Original Stories from Real Life was published with her name, with illustrations by William Blake .

This book (several times reprinted in England and America, but now rare) has often been omitted from lists of her works. Most of the illustrations, which were added in the second edition, 1791, are by...

Before she began painting, Carrington mused in a letter to Lytton Strachey about what she had seen: Doré , or Blake could hardly have conceived anything more frenzied.Jane Hill finds in the work...