Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell.
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Textual Features | Constance Naden | The book is divided into four sections: The Astronomer, etc., The Lady Doctor, etc. (from the poem already printed in London Society), Sonnets, and Translations (which come from Schiller
, Goethe
,... |
Textual Features | Ellen Mary Clerke | The remaining third of the volume comprises translations of authors ranging from Lorenzo de Medici
to Goethe
. Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell. prelims |
Textual Features | Germaine de Staël | Here she recants the Wertherian romanticism of self-destruction which had stemmed from her early reading of Goethe
. |
Textual Features | Isabel Hill | The main ambition of Brother Tragedians was to reduce prejudices typically directed towards actresses and actors, by demonstrating their many virtuous qualities. Athenæum. J. Lection. 345 (1834): 432 |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many... |
Textual Features | E. A. Dillwyn | This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle
(to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his... |
Textual Features | John Oliver Hobbes | She writes that the passion for Wagner
among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been... |
Textual Features | Ann Yearsley | Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY
seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe
's Werther, which... |
Textual Features | Anna Swanwick | |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Textual Features | Anna Swanwick | AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it... |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe
—and two from Italian. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Residence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Jane had greatly enjoyed her time in London, notwithstanding her poor health. Her sadness about returning to Scotland was compounded by the deaths of James Carlyle
(Thomas's father) and of Goethe
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 103 |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | Sources suggest that FH
contributed, probably around 1821, essays on foreign literature (probably Italian poets) to the Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, perhaps following an essay on Spanish literature to Blackwood's the year before... |
Publishing | Amy Levy | The eighteen-year-old AL
published a translation from Goethe
in the Cambridge Review; the following August Euphemia, a Sketch appeared in the Victoria Magazine. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 23 Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
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