Virgil

Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB : England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland...

Critic Jacqueline M. Labbe has discussed the first poem in this volume, Saham Gardens (at Saham Toney in Norfolk). She approved AF 's claiming the garden for specifically female power and delighting in her...

Oscar Wilde offered slightly faint praise. AS , he wrote, had tried to guide modern readers through Dante's great poem as Virgil guided Dante through the afterworld, and her modest literary guide-book was unlike many...

Further disconnected tales accumulate, one contrasting two priests, Father Coeurdroit (or Goodheart), who serves the poor rather than the Church, and Father Predatore, whose name is self-explanatory. The flow is finally interrupted by Proteus placing...

Perhaps JC 's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. She writes a story of A...

The title-page quotes Virgil . The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret.

AI praises both her father and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh . Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having...

SP 's masterful use of early writers and mythical belief-systems is exemplified in Seven Horizon Poems. Each of the poems snatches a separate grain of meaning, pressing into service to do so a wide...

Janice Thaddeus discusses the prerogative MD assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch 's Lives, who was forgiven...

The protagonist of The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is a woman in her fifties whose husband and grown children have all abandoned her. Her own somewhat grumpy impressions of her newly single life...

The Land irresistibly recalls Virgil 's Georgics, the poem which gave its name to the genre of which it remains the best-known example; indeed, for some time VSW intended to call her poem Georgics...

JW 's preface invokes Shakespeare , Virgil , Homer , and Sir Walter Scott (she later adds Thomas Percy ) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry

Virgil , once thought of, became the poem's tutelary deity. He supplies an epigraph. VSW opens in the epic manner—I sing the cycle of my country's year, / I sing the tillage—and...

The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil (in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story.

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...