Virgil

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...

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

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 ....

She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death...

Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland) opens: I won't go back to it. Yet in...

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...

The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. The actual woman behind the story was Rebecca Berry, later Elton . The coat of arms of her...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...