John Milton

TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the...

FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...

Rupert Brooke 's production of Milton 's Comus, for which Frances Darwin (later Cornford ) designed the costumes, opened at the New Theatre in Cambridge.

AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...

This was work in keeping with his family's political position. Attending Westminster School only a stone's throw from a whole succession of exciting and disturbing national events must surely have awakened Dryden's historical and political...

When she read two chapters of it to her uncle Sheridan Le Fanu , his response was: You will succeed, and when you do, remember that I prophesied it! He agreed...

Helen Waddell , translated and privately printed in a small booklet Lament for Damon, a version of Milton 's Epitaphium Damonis.

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...

This work listed MO as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton , seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...