John Milton

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Standard Name: Milton, John

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Intertextuality and Influence Hannah More
The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote.
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Intertextuality and Influence Felicia Hemans
The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch , Shakespeare , Milton , and Germaine de Staël . FH
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Johnson
The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison had famously rendered as The spacious...
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Beeton
Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs E. M. Foster
As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...
Intertextuality and Influence Medora Gordon Byron
The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost (There wanted yet the master-work); the preface quotes Samuel Johnson saying that the novelist needs to have first-hand experience of the living world, but that...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Green
Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary More
MM believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
In Three Years After Marriage (a title which alludes to Three Hours After Marriage by Pope , Gay , and Arbuthnot ) a beautiful young wife, Matilda, is impervious to advice against quarrelling with her...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah, Lady Cowper
The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Hubback
CH heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Griffith
He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...
Intertextuality and Influence B. M. Croker
The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Catherine Hume
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
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Freke
Most striking of all is A Diologue between the Serpentt and Eve, which may have been written on the model of the speeches in Milton 's Paradise Lost, but does not refer to...

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