William Shakespeare

EH enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison...

EJS is wary of the transformations of poetry: this apparition / A rainbow truth altering for every eye. The real King Richard II , who died in obscurity after a life of ruin and negation...

Turning from history to literature, EPL notes that whereas in life women are assumed to be weak, in literature they are depicted as and admired for being strong, wilful, and assertive. The only exception she...

The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce , and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...

She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer 's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a...

This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS 's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare . This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian...

The title poem celebrates the time of winter solstice and red berries variously identified in several traditions with shed blood. The poems are often touched with darkness and strangeness: with the sun turning black as...

For this production she made some cuts, and revised the catastrophe or plot-resolution. She later said this was the only one of her plays that she would dignify by the name of tragedy.

Housman named the influences on his poetry as non-contemporary texts: the border ballads, Shakespeare 's songs, and Heine .

This is unusual: a compliment from a Frenchman to Montagu, whose Shakespeare criticism was anti-Voltaire and therefore anti-French.

An odd couple on holiday from England (Stanley Williams, his Jamaican immigrant parents' my-son-the-banker, and Jessie O'Donnell, a singer, a foundling raised by nuns in Leeds) drive haphazardly across Europe towards the Middle East...

Tillie Olsen in 1978 pointed out a striking anticipation here of Woolf 's A Room of One's Own: what of the possible Shakespeares we might have had who passed their life from youth upward...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare on the topic of change, which becomes a central theme of the book. A facsimile reprint with scholarly apparatus appeared in the Chawton House Library Series: Women's Travel Writings, 207-8.

She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I . It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it...