William Wordsworth

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge ). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy...

The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

Byron and Wordsworth were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey 's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L.

Other poems are self-referential examinations of poetry and writing. The Recluse describes the inability of the contemporary poet to present in verse (like the unnamed William Wordsworth ) the rustic tale of a chance-met old...

The painter Van Gogh is a constant presence in this highly allusive novel, which takes Stephanie Potter, now Orton, through pregnancy and birth (while she tries to hold on to her former identity by reading...

Mary Berry took the lead in promoting the volume. Editing De Monfort for her British Theatre in 1808, Elizabeth Inchbald wrote of the hero as a lunatic possessing every vice which pride engenders, yet...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . This fairly conventional romance, in which MC has not yet begun to exploit her gift for local colour, uses its young heroine and narrator to look at the problems...

The first chapter-heading comes from one of Wordsworth 's Lucy poems; eighteenth-century poets are also quoted. Unattributed chapter-headings, as well as verses by characters in the novel, are probably by ES herself. The protagonist, Genevieve...