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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. |
| Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
| Literary responses | Emma Frances Brooke | A short review in The Academy classified the poem as a domestic epic, which the reviewer considered almost a new genre.This reviewer cited the influence on the author of Wordsworth
and the Dora... |
| Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
| Literary responses | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After reading Phantasmagoria, Wordsworth
forwarded it to Robert Southey
to review. MJJ
's satire of Southey
in First Efforts in Criticism prompted the Poet Laureate to decline. He wrote: The best advice [I] could... |
| Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
| Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | |
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | Two of these poems became well-known on account of musical settings. The volume as a whole established HMW
's reputation and her allegiance to sensibility. It was no doubt a factor in producing Wordsworth
's... |
| Literary responses | Jennifer Johnston | This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein
in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
| Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington. |
| Literary responses | Anne Bannerman | The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott
, John Leyden
, and William Wordsworth
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 143 |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The title and publisher convinced Dorothy Wordsworth
that MR
was cashing in on the fame of her brother
's Lyrical Ballads; she told a friend that he was thinking of changing his own title... |
| Literary responses | Isabella Lickbarrow | Recently Jonathan Wordsworth
has called her a poet of genuine individuality, well worth recuperation, Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 193 Curran, Stuart. “Isabella Lickbarrow and Mary Bryan: Wordsworthian Poets”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 27 , No. 2, pp. 113-18. 113 |
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