Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 123-4 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 124 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Steele | Nor was this AS
's only opportunity to marry. In 1742 she was approached with an ardent love-letter (likening her to Milton
's Eve as she first strikes love into the heart of Adam) by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
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 Features | Elizabeth Smith | She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 85 |
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, says it was written in 1925, though unpublished... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | The tribute to Helena Mennie Shire is twofold. The Poet imagines the childhood of twentieth-century Scottish poet Olive Fraser
, whose poetry Shire had collected in The Wrong Music and The Pure Account, and... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | 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 |
Travel | Mary Shelley | The villa was famous for a visit made there by the young Milton
in 1639 and is still a literary landmark. They stayed first at Sécheron, then at Cologny. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 107 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xvi |
Textual Features | Mary Shelley | Within the next couple of days she read two more books by Wollstonecraft (along with works by Livy
and Milton
). But she says nothing about these texts, or about the experience of reading them... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS
shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together... |
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