William Shakespeare

Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...

It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer and Shakespeare onwards.

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.

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 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...

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...

JP divides this novel into three parts, one for each woman. Much of the section on Catherine of Valois (whom many readers would remember as a charming young woman being wooed in broken French at...

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...

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.

The selection ranges from Shakespeare to Angus Wilson , from the Bible to Liz Lochhead .

This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer. Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...

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...