William Cowper

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 poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is...

Once an omnivorous reader, HM restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. From...

CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry

Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts

The Critical Review approved the poem, but remarked that amelioration might do as well as abolition as a means of addressing the abuses it describes. On 16 February 1788William Cowper recorded...

CB was praised for this volume both in Blackwood's (her publisher's own journal) and in the London Quarterly Review. Writing in 1840, Henry Nelson Coleridge called the title piece a beautiful little poem in...

John Wilson 's review for Blackwood's, March 1837, deemed the title poem an autobiography of the childhood of Genius. A few years laterHenry Nelson Coleridge (husband of Sara Coleridge ), writing in...

The same year Broadview Press issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway , engraved by Caroline Watson , to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed...

This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson , Christopher Smart , and the young William Cowper , as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe and Susanna Highmore .

The Critical Review, quoting several poems in full, equally approved JT 's lively facility and her graver moral style,and diagnosed the influence of Cowper . In 1925 E. V. Lucas

ML was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe 's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper , who...

In 1793, William Cowper 's friend Lady Hesketh sent CF a poem of Cowper's, with the request that she should not copy or circulate it. CF learned it by heart, then sent back the original...

She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper , William Hayley , and George Romney ). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a...

1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter and Hester Mulso Chapone , William Cowper , and a number of those men who later wrote...