Robert Burns

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace , as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns ; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

The title-page quotes Burns and Scott . The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. The book is again made up...

Burns reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788).Walter Scott

Its engaging heroine, Maggie Grey, combines the names of both lovers in Burns 's well-known song, but unlike Burns's Maggie she marries up, her eventual husband, Geoffrey Trafford, being the cousin of an earl. She...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town...

In this year both Susanna Blamire (visiting there) and Robert Burns were writing in Perthshire. This, too, was the year that Carolina Oliphant's father died, and it has been suggested that grief and a...

JH composed from a young age; between the ages of seventeen and nineteen she produced about twenty pieces of religious poetry. She was strongly influenced by her reading of the Bible, by the...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

In her letter to Burns, Mrs Dunlop emphasises JL 's intellect rather than her appearance: Her outside promises nothing; her mind only bursts forth on paper. She further encouraged JL to correspond with Burns...