Alfred Tennyson

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...

SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death. Its allusive title (making fun of Tennyson 's poem A Dream of Fair Women, which itself is...

CB was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson and Charlotte Brontë . Over the span of eleven years she composed about a...

These two songs are the only works by CB published under her real name: some time after this, she adopted the pseudonym Claribel. She may have taken this pseudonym from Alfred Tennyson 's poem...

Heywood and Son , the Manchester publishers whom IB had known since childhood and who were issuing a collected edition of her works, published her new novel More than Coronets (titled from a poem by...

Tennyson is reputed to have envied CFA the writing of The Burial of Moses, as well as The Legend of Stumpie's Brae. Critic Séan McMahon believes the latter ballad to be the best...