Virgil

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 .

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 ....

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

He published several volumes of poetry and translated works by Theocritus and Virgil . He found the occupation of novelist extremely profitable, and used most of his revenue from writing to fund his horticultural endeavours...

PL 's more recent work for children includes almost every imaginable kind of fiction. Some of her titles are futuristic, like Judy and the Martian, 1992, and A Martian Comes to Stay, 1995....

HW 's preface reflects her wide reading, addresses the various traditions—from pagan to Virgil ian—that went into the lyrics she translates, and makes it clear that she envisages her anthology as a companion to The...