Alfred Tennyson

Like much of AW 's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , as well as earlier poets such as John Keats . Many poems here, including...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

One of the poems collected here, Homeward Bound, is strikingly similar in subject to Tennyson 's later Enoch Arden, but Tennyson's son disavowed any influence despite the fact that his father owned the volume.

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson 's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott 's Flora MacIvor.

As mentioned above, Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment was widely circulated, selling nearly eighty thousand copies in its first year. A letter addressed to CM concerning the publication of English Hearts and...

Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson , Arnold , Robert Browning , Margaret Oliphant , T. H. Huxley , and James Russell Lowell was formed to devise a memorial to DMC in Tewkesbury...

On 4 July 1846, two anonymous reviews appeared of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell: one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. A...

Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth , Tennyson , De Quincey , and Ebenezer Elliot .

The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson and Browning had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London.

In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...

Following the death of Tennyson , JI was considered for the position of Poet Laureate.

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...

By 1877 AP was said to be second only to Tennyson in the sales of her work, and, as Bessie Rayner Belloc said, her poems must have penetrated into every reading household in Great Britain...

During the same year, 1911, BWC contributed Thackeray and his Father's Family to the Cornhill (new series 31), and the following year, 1912, she contributed An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years to the...