John Milton

Opening in Milton ic tones of high seriousness but in Spenser ian stanzas, the poem offers up childhood as the last echo of Eden spared to humanity after the fall. The sustained trope is that...

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.

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton 's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior 's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse).

At eight, she produced her first play, The Fairy Cave, in seven acts. The stage direction for the last began, A gorden it is night Enter gardner with spad, and with a gun Jack...

EG's first literary activity came at the age of nine, when she attempted to imitate Milton . As she later put it, I very early discovered a faculty for rhyming scarcely worthy to be dignified...

MW published what is probably her best-known work, her final completed novel, Precious Bane (titled from Milton 's name for gold—part of the natural resources of Hell—in Paradise Lost).

This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns . OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia . Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in...

MJ titled a little book of essays Shepherd's Trade: this title embodies her claim to be an author, but conceals the implications of its original in Milton 's Lycidas, which questions the value...

She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More 's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England ) drew from...

EF published with Sinclair-Stevenson a novel entitled The Tree of Knowledge, centred on the longest-surviving daughter of the poet Milton .

CG 's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull and a quotation from Milton on the title-page.

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

RM published her short biography Milton for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.

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...