Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Killigrew | Her father, the Rev. Dr Henry Killigrew
, was and an amateur writer, a royal chaplain to the Duke of York, and Master of the Savoy (which was then a manor in the Strand)... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lady Cowper | SLC
brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ephelia | Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley
's famous praise of Philips
the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet. Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679. 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | The poems by CF
include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Martha Fowke | These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Guskin, Phyllis J. “’Not Originally Intended for the Press’: Martha Fowke Sansom’s Poems in the Barbados Gazette”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 61-91. 66 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Whitrow | This offers praise to God for the king's safe return from waging war in Holland, but deplores the money spent in official welcome celebrations, which would have been better given to the poor. By... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Meteyard | This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life), qtd. in Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. 188 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | AB
's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to... |
Literary responses | Lady Jane Cavendish | Thomas Lawrence
, in his elegy, aspires to inherit LJC
's poetic gift, by seizing her discarded mantle (as Elisha in the Bible did the prophet's mantle of Elijah). In view of recent critical debate... |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
. Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx. ix |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | These poems praise the retired life, withdrawn from worldly ambition, in the manner of Cowley
. The contrast which Philips draws between private worth and public corruption belongs both to her public and private statements... |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |