John Milton

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...

The title-page quotes Milton and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare or Byron or attributed only...

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 sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

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...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

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...

The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost on conscience as the guide within. The heroines named in the title are sisters: Clara Welford née Gower is already unhappily married to a rake and gambler...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

The poem's third part reveals some of the sources of MDF 's radicalism by looking forward to Christ 's reign on earth, which will seize power from Antichrist as the revolutionaries in France have seized...

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...

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...

EF wrote her Dramatic Sketches, Elidure in three weeks and Edward in two, after reading Milton 's History of Britain, that Part especially now call'd England, 1670.

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...