Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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| 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 | Mary Lamb | Burton
writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles
's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth
's contribution to... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | After CB
's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (September 1854): 309 |
| Literary responses | Mary Bryan | The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7. |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
| 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 | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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