John Milton

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Standard Name: Milton, John

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Textual Features Michelene Wandor
Her range of reference is wide: Milton , Cromwell , Virginia Woolf , Joan Baez , fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards.
Textual Features Muriel Jaeger
In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer.
Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell, 1965.
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Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...
Textual Features Mary Whateley Darwall
In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .
Textual Production William Empson
WE published his most controversial work, Milton 's God, in which he argues that the Christian God, as portrayed in orthodox manner, though with exceptional imaginative power, in Paradise Lost, is cruel and morally evil.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1677 (1859): 812
To most readers today the...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM published her short biography Milton for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Textual Production Priscilla Wakefield
She dedicated this work to her two grandsons, and quoted Milton on its title-page.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Instinct Displayed. Darton and Harvey, 1811.
title-page
Textual Production Christian Gray
A second volume of CG 's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
The title, from the close of Milton 's Paradise Lost, refers to the world as Adam and Eve see it when, driven from Paradise, they must choose their own new home.
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS wrote a few poems during her childhood: she began writing poetry again in about 1924. Her note on Satan Speaks, a pastiche of Milton , says it was written in 1925, though unpublished...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Elizabeth Smith
One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...
Textual Production Mary Delany
MD wrote for Handel a libretto adapted from Milton 's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Delany, Mary. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. Editor Llanover, Augusta Hall, Baroness, R. Bentley, 1861–1862, 6 vols.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The title-page bore her name and a quotation from Milton . This book advertised her novel from nearly thirty years ago.
Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.
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