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Literary responses | Arabella Shore | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Scott | The poem, appropriately, is written in heroic couplets. Its opening boldly echoes Virgil
only to distance itself from the project of the Aeneid: Arms and the men for deeds of arms renown'd .... |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 118 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | 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 Sackville-West, Vita. The Land. Heinemann. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
Textual Production | Radagunda Roberts | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The prologue expresses the hope that the product of her adventurous muse will prove equally acceptable to English and Scottish readers, who are all alike British. Roberts, Radagunda. Malcolm. A Tragedy. prelims |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | 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... |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount
) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, wrote a poem in praise of Dryden
's translation of Virgil
, which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Martin | Indeed, as in MM
's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator... |
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