John Milton

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

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...

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...

In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton 's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), with the counter-assertion: It is not for God...

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...

She refers to the campaign for the vote as a side-effect of a disturbance in the relation of the sexes, of the Paradisaical, or Milton ic, subordination of women. It is in fact the...

In Critical Fragments, on some of the English Poets (seven poets, all male), EH wittily exercises an imitation which is far from flattery. She begins with Milton , who in ponder'ous verse, moves greatly on...

Its womanizing protagonist, Mr Hutton, considers himself the Christ of Ladies (reversing, with what he supposes to be worldly wit, the supposed nickname of Milton as the lady of Christ's). His internal monologue...

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...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

MJ mentions her reading (or running over) as reaching from Milton 's Paradise Lost to popular ballads, even taking in Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, but her favourite was Pope .

The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Starr pronounced in 1931: As a literary production, The Concealed Fansyes is practically without value.He noted its general and specific indebtedness to Ben Jonson , asserted a likeness between its pair of brothers and...