William Shakespeare

The title comes from Shakespeare 's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island...

Our Lady of the Broken Heart, the garden play mentioned in the volume title, is set in a public Italian garden during the seventeenth century, or any time. In the dedication, AMFR recalls...

The title is a phrase applied to Shakespeare 's Perdita in The Winter's Tale. This book, like others by DG , looks at relations between English and middle European characters.

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

As the work opens, Cordelia, slight of body, determined of will, savvy of mind (who is to reappear later in another book, The Skull Beneath the Skin), is running a seedy detective agency...

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

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...

Rachel, an heiress, gives her heart to a poor man whose family oppose the match for fear of being seen as mercenary. She is also something of a social rebel, a feminist (fond of gender-bending...

The title is ironical, the houses concerned being damaged in the blitz, or such famous fictional dwellings as Ibsen 's Doll's House and Dunsinane Castle in Shakespeare 's Macbeth.

In his absence Camilla recovers, and three years later marries another rake, Sir Lusignan Dellbury; when his former adoration is cooled by marriage, she turns to her children for emotional satisfaction. He insists on her...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

Fire, addressed to Yeats and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare (Does not our life consist of the four elements?), is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...

The title is a near-quotation from Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream—the working man who is about to play the role of the lion promises not to frighten the ladies in the audience: I...

The satiric Our Side of the Question, dedicated to the Sarcastic Bachelors' Society counters misogynistic views of matrimony with reference to Shakespeare 's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. JR notes wryly that...