EM
's early literary friends included Edward Lovibond
, a Surrey poet who (she says in her verse collection) trained her in poetry, George Hardinge
, a distinguished lawyer and also a writer,
Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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under Hardinge
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Moody
Following the death this month of Edward Lovibond
, her poetic mentor, EM
lamented him in verse; she had addressed poetry to him during his lifetime.
Lovibond, born in 1723, lived at Hampton in Surrey...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Moody
The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole
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Texts
Collins, Anthony Lovibond, and Edward Lovibond. “Preface”. Poems on Several Occasions, J. Dodsley, 1785, p. v - x.