Early feminist attention to CR
made much of the portrayal of sisterhood in Goblin Market. Jerome McGann
inaugurated a burst of important new scholarship on her in The Beauty of Inflections, 1985, and...
Literary responses
Mary Robinson
The Critical Review praised MR
's brilliancy of fancy, and command of poetical language; but added that the ear is oftener addressed than the heart in her productions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 19 (1797): 114
Critic...
Literary responses
Laura Riding
Critic Jerome McGann
asserts that LR
, while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans
Literary responses
Kathleen Raine
Jerome McGann
, however, insisted that KR
does not overestimate the need to establish Blake's tradition,
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
46: 317
and agreed with her on the importance of recovering the sources of Blake's special symbolic language to...
Literary responses
Joanna Baillie
Very few copies sold.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
3
The single review, recalled by JB
as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield
, who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...
Literary responses
Ann Batten Cristall
The Critical Review discerned in the collection considerable merit and the hand of genius: so much so that it felt it safe to overlook a few blemishes (though it mentioned some for the sake...
Literary responses
Martha Fowke
While still anonymous, the author of these poems has attracted appreciation from Isobel Grundy
(for smash[ing] so many preconceptions, including the idea that the theme of courtship or seduction belongs to male rather than female...
Literary responses
Martha Fowke
Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
.
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon, 1996.
44
This combination, he...
Literary responses
Ann Yearsley
Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has...
Literary responses
Ann Yearsley
Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY
as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius.
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 2 vols.
71
In 1990 Donna Landry
wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...
Occupation
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Interest in him as a painter and writer has remained fairly steady since his death, increasing after the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
came into greater favour in the later twentieth century. Jerome McGann
...
Publishing
L. E. L.
The resurgance of interest in LEL has led to reprints of her work. Her Critical Writings were published in 1996.
L. E. L.,. Critical Writings by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Editor Sypher, Francis Jacques, Scholar’s Facsimilies and Reprints, 1996.
Facsimiles have appeared of her most significant works, Ethel Churchill, The Vow of the...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to...
Textual Features
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
Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...
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Texts
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Collected Poetry and Prose. Editor McGann, Jerome, Yale University Press, 2003.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
McGann, Jerome. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost. Yale University Press, 2000.
L. E. L.,. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings. Editors McGann, Jerome and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997.
McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. Palgrave, 2001.
McGann, Jerome. The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive”. University of Virginia: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), edited by Jerome McGann.
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon, 1996.
