Percy Bysshe Shelley

The collection also contained homages to George Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley .

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

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...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

The title of A Sensitive Plant comes from the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley : his sensitive plant, too, is human, in his case a male poet. The sensitive character depicted...

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...

In this historically-based essay CD sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. She begins with the worship of the female principle in ancient Egypt, Greece...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...

Holyoake , the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD 's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought...

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,

Percy Shelley , having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin , attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged...

George Meredith thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse...