George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

According to its editor Julia Markus , the poem constitutes one of the most detailed accounts of Florence in 1847 and 1849, and it interweaves with that political history of a nation-in-the-making a deeply personal...

The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella) , widow of the poet...

On Byron 's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets. Most of her poems about women celebrate those who are spotless in morals and reputation—she takes care that non-spotless women are killed off...

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

EC employed couplets, stanzas, and blank verse to address her African, Oriental, pastoral, medieval, and contemporary subjects; the one non-exotic tale is best, but all have dash and vigour. A battle-ballad sounds Byron

Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The poem, called a burlesque epic by the author, details the life and adventures, and tragical death of Merlin the tomcat. (The title Childe, famously used in Byron 's Childe Harold...

UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.

After five years living in Greece, FS published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Isles of Greece, and Other Poems as Felicia Mary Frances Skene.

The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

LCL kept a diary, in which she recorded, for instance, her famous first impression of Byron . Late in her life she planned to publish this diary, and to consult Sydney Morgan about the best...