Edmund Spenser

She takes her title from the name of the knight of Justice in Spenser 's The Faerie Queen, whom she quotes in an epigraph on the title page. The publication was written in response...

In tribute to Jones's work, FN invokes the character of Una (symbol of truth, foe to error) from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene in her bid to inspire others to take on similar religious work...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

After this success Caroline began on a Romantic narrative poem in Spenser ian stanzas, set in America, to be called Amouida and Sebastian; but she did not finish it.

MT 's prose preface acknowledges her debt, early in the poem, to Apuleius ' version of the Psyche story. She says she chose the Spenserian stanza because she loved Spenser ; she found it difficult...

Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

The Fortunate Shepherds (which brings hill shepherds into contact with Forest of Dean miners) uses the twelve verse-metres used by Spenser in his Shepheards' Calendar.

JEC prefaced her poem with a quatrain of her own (the only original poetry by her which Richard Garnett knew of). Addressing Una (presumably as a character standing, as does Spenser 's personage of that...

The title-page quotes from Spenser , and the first chapter from Johnson 's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...

AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse. Her...

Croker , who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics who, according to the Morning Chronicle, were thrown into a STATE of FURY...

William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...

The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...

LAC set up (in her mother 's name) a memorial to the poet Spenser in Westminster Abbey.