John Milton

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

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...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...

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

But the anxiety evident in EBB 's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier , the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread...

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...

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...

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...

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...

In the second volume the grown-up Theodora is living in London, a great reader, and acquainted with the royal family: she is impolite to the Princess Royal when the latter interrupts her reading of Milton

The last was Samuel Johnson 's nickname for her. He loved nicknames, and this had reference to three things: her brother's position as Chanter, her practice of poetry, and Milton 's address to the nightingale...

FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...

Rupert Brooke 's production of Milton 's Comus, for which Frances Darwin (later Cornford ) designed the costumes, opened at the New Theatre in Cambridge.