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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Textual Features | Kathleen Raine | |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | 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... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
published the first book of her three-volume autobiography, Farewell Happy Fields: Memories of Childhood. The first three words of the title are spoken by Milton
's Satan after he is cast out of... |
Education | Kathleen Raine | KR
wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton
and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 67 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | LHP
's elder sister Margaret (later, by marriage, Margaret Hobson
) had the distinction of being the recipient or dedicatee of Milton
's sonnet in praise of her father. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The new Juvenilia Press
edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Philips | KP
's maternal grandfather, Daniel Oxenbridge
, was a physician with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her uncle John Oxenbridge was a friend of Milton
and Marvell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Daniel Oxenbridge Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
Literary responses | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would... |
Reception | Mary Oxlie | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | 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... |
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