John Milton

In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close...

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...

KC 's novel-writing career extended for a further seventeen indefatigable years after this. Novels she issued before her final one in 1916 are of considerable interest, though they received less and less praise. The Minx...

The title-page bore her name and a quotation from Milton . This book advertised her novel from nearly thirty years ago.

Her title seems to combine memory of Milton 's human face divine (in the lines on his own blindness in Paradise Lost) with that of Blake's human form divine. Consideration of the twenty-two engravings...

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.

Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.

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.

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 Her note on Satan Speaks, a pastiche of Milton , says it was written in 1925, though unpublished...

Her own essay here is Obscure and Giddy Sects: Milton and the Scandal of Divorce.

She dedicated this work to her two grandsons, and quoted Milton on its title-page.

AH published another novel, Eyeless in Gaza, titled with a quotation in which the hero of Milton 's Samson Agonistes laments his enslaved condition.

This bore both her birth and married names (Mrs. Laurence Cowen) and sold for one shilling, dedicated to the Members of the London Stock Exchange . In an introduction she mentions the libel...

AM 's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton 's first wife, it remains her best-known work.

Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...