Alfred Tennyson

The volume includes the titular long poem Stella, about the doomed love between an Italian patriot and the daughter of a nobleman, which critic Francis O'Gorman describes as echoing Tennyson'sMaud (published twelve years...

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...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

Verona's title poem embeds a number of lyrics within its novelistic structure. Tennyson 's influence is particularly apparent in Serenada, which opens: Now folds the cistus, now / The lemon-blossom sleeps (echoing...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

Her most commonly printed poem, Philip My King, anticipates, using biblical imagery, the entire life of her godson Philip Bourke Marston . The speaker entreats him, when he marries, to Rule kindly, /...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...

The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...

MEB infused a touch of poetry more literally by frequent allusion to works by Tennyson , including Mariana, The Deserted House, and The Lotos-Eaters. Her trademark use of other authors' texts as...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...