Christopher Smart

A number of poems here are grouped in series, the centrepiece being The Furies (which, she said, was the reason that she decided not to wait but to publish the collection in her lifetime).

This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson , Christopher Smart , and the young William Cowper , as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe and Susanna Highmore .

The emphasis placed on ML by Roger Lonsdale in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers.Donna Landry , virtually originating the late twentieth-century interest in labouring-class women poets of this...

Against the trend of the times, RS aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste...

The Rattle Bag, arranged not by date, or theme, or even alphabetically by author, but alphabetically by title, aims at and achieves a happy and fertile randomness, gathering chips of brilliance from all times...

It presents a report on the state of the world, or at least the nation, by the goddess Astrea or Justice, who in classical myth fled to heaven at the end of the Golden Age...

In 1936 RP and Michael Head had published The Matron Cat's Song, for which she wrote the lyric and he the music. (In 1972 Beryl Price published musical settings for A Cycle of Cats...