Petrarch

The title-page quotes Milton on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has...

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

LEL recalled devising poetry during her early childhood in East Barnet, where she moved at the age of seven: I cannot remember the time when composition in some shape or other was not a...

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 story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Julie de...

The letters are unaffected and moral, but tend to look favourably on suicide. The first, from Eleanora, is dated 19 May 1770. She writes to Maria of her growing love for Werter, who seems to...

The story is set in a Scottish border castle in the reign of Henry VII . ES again quotes learnedly: Ariosto and Petrarch in the original Italian, and Horace in Latin. The widowed Gertrude Baroness...

The epigraph is a quotation from Milton 's Paradise Lost about not seeking to know the future. MS frames the story with a visit she made to the Sybil's Cave near Naples (though some have...

Some reviewers accused her of disparaging Petrarch . The book did not sell well (which she blamed in part on her chosen publishers having a reputation for left-wing politics), but it was chosen Book of...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski has summarised LMW 's achievement (her historical importance and the quality of her art) like this: Wroth reinvented the Petrarch an lyric sequence, the romance, and the pastoral drama, claiming those genres...

Their editor Harriet Kramer Linkin calls these poems often unsettling and unsettled,pulsating with the frustrated energies of unfulfilled Petrarchan desire voiced from a complex feminine position. Linkin followed up her edition with a critical...

Charles A. Huttar has praised AL 's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons calls the sonnets her most...

Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB : England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland...

BBBD wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her...