John Milton

The starting-point for the poem is the tradition (subtly questioned) of Sappho's suicide as an abandoned woman; this fact links the text to other responses to the topic by other women poets including Felicia Hemans

The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...

A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and...

MR 's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith to her Elegiac Sonnets. She presents her own work as one of scholarship, explaining that by legitimate in her title she means the sonnet in...

The story opens during the sixteenth century, in the forests of Dalecarlia (in Swedish Dalarna), whose copper miners supported Gustav Vasa (in English generally known as Gustavus) in his revolt against Christian II, King of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway

Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God...

Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young , Milton , Prior , Blair , Thomson , and Pope . MD 's repeated claims to...

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...

Among these poems, To Miss —— (March 1783) is a poem of advice which recommends Milton 's Eve as a model. It applies to dawning reason the language both of religion and Romanticism: Go seek...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

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

The title piece, A Drama of Exile, is the most ambitious. It visualises the consequences of the biblical Fall from paradise, since, as EBB writes in the preface (where she casts herself, too, as...

This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of...

This is the first example in print of HB 's satiric style: heroic couplets which gallop along with perfect control and slashing vituperation. It opens magnificently: Unknowing either, and to both unknown, / An individual...

The title-page has two epigraphs. The first begins with two lines from Milton 's Il Penseroso (perhaps alluding to its musical setting by Handel ), which go on to link the nightingale with Anna...