Alfred Tennyson

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

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...

This, called only The Mirror Crack'd in the US edition the following year (so that the quotation from Tennyson becomes easy to miss), was followed by A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 (in which Miss Marple's...

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

SC published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of Tennyson 's The Princess in the Quarterly Review.

Further submissions to the Athenæum were rebuffed as too infected with Tennyson ian mannerisms.

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...

The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman 's ownership. One of her own contributions...

At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...

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...