Alfred Tennyson

AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...

In the early years of her success, ESVM credited as her influences Tennysonfor narrative power and technical innovations and Housman for his emotional attitude and spare poignancy of expression.

MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson and the BrowningsRobert Browning .

The success of AO 's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson , and Swinburne . She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth .

In the new foreword, Ogle explains that she wrote the book in the despair of youth. She suggests by allusion to Tennyson that youthful sorrows can also lead to personal awakening. In the story...

CO badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which...

She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate ) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...

CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...

WP 's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent...

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...