John Milton

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...

For this anthology EF gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare and Milton , as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton and Helen Maria Williams ...

The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare

In A Glimpse Cornford describes the unchanging environment, the Smooth-shadowed waters Milton loved, in which scholars carry Books to the library—absorbed, content, / Seeming as everlasting as the elms / Bark-wrinkled, puddled round their...

In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton , Shelley , Blake , and Yeats .

She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. But...

Volume three opens with a mock trial: the Crawleys hope to get innocent men (including the hero) condemned for insurrection; the English or Anglicised Irish aristocrats are flightily amused at performing a trial scene. The...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .

LH draws on a wide range of sources to buttress her argument. These include the results of her reading—Milton , and the story of the Greek Atalanta (whose male inventors, she says, were not...

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley suggested in Samuel Halkett and John Laing 's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This...