John Milton

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...

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...

She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, and modelling her style on theirs. She remembered reading the Bible and children's half-penny books before she...

Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...

The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character. The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...

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...

Her allegorical poem Bring Me Word How Tall She Is begins Within a garden shade,
A garden sweet and dim,
Two happy children played
Together; he was made
For God, and she for him.

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Greenwell, Dora. Camera Obscura. Daldy, Isbister.

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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...

CG 's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull and a quotation from Milton on the title-page.

A second volume of CG 's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost...

Milton was clearly an inspiration to Gray because of his blindness: this shows a fair level of self-confidence in her. The author's name appears with the description blind from her infancy, which emphasises the charitable...

EG's first literary activity came at the age of nine, when she attempted to imitate Milton . As she later put it, I very early discovered a faculty for rhyming scarcely worthy to be dignified...

Charlotte Lennox is alluded to in this book (though AG gives her birth name wrongly as Massey), along with the more highly-ranked Milton and Johnson (whose Life of Savage she echoes, without naming...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...