John Milton

Fox describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem. However, scholar Richard Garnett pronounced less...

The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...

Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts and others have noted Sigourney's high reputation in her own day (the female Milton, the American Hemans, the sweet singer of Hartford, generally ranked higher than William Cullen Bryant

But the anxiety evident in EBB 's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier , the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread...

The many editions of CS 's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...

Wordsworth chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton 's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of...

The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

MJ mentions her reading (or running over) as reaching from Milton 's Paradise Lost to popular ballads, even taking in Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, but her favourite was Pope .

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

The starting-point for the poem is the tradition (subtly questioned) of Sappho's suicide as an abandoned woman; this fact links the text to other responses to the topic by other women poets including Felicia Hemans