John Keats

Anne was not able to care consistently for Linda during her early years, and had her looked after for long periods by her mother and her mother-in-law. However, mother and daughter developed an extremely close...

CCC was an important early friend of John Keats . He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt , Douglas Jerrold , Charles and Mary Lamb , and Charles Dickens . Most of these friendships were...

MCC 's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles and Mary Lamb , Leigh Hunt

While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold , resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit...

His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary.

One of ESVM 's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie . Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley and Keats and...

The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration.

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...

In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference...

One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins , Walter Benjamin , Homer , Keats ). The first...

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...