Alfred Tennyson

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.

A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India...

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...

The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne ; Michael Field 's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...

Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1923) is about a young woman who, despite all odds and obstacles, succeeds in becoming a veterinarian and winning the heart of her beloved. In The Golden Rose, 1924,...

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 .

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

This second lecture takes as its epigraph the invocation in Tennyson 's The Princess of men and women working side by side in council, hearth, and the tangled business of the world. It enlarges...

The poems take up various late-Victorian feminist issues, and their topicality and title seem to make them an implicit rebuttal of Tennyson 's nostalgic Idylls of the King. In A Woman's Ethics (perhaps an...

Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...

LSC was apparently inspired by the same Italian poem (Cento Novelle Antiche) that inspired Tennyson 's The Lady of Shalott three years later. Scholar Roger Simpson suggests that, at the very least,...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...