Alfred Tennyson

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett , who...

She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...

EJ gave a lecture at Lincoln at the annual dinner of the Tennyson Society , which was published, leaflet style, as Tennyson and Dr. Gully.

She dedicated it to James Martineau in honour of their friendship of sixty years. Her preface says: To the learned I have nothing to offer, but hopes to appeal to students and readers. She...

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

In the new foreword, Ogle explains that she wrote the book in the despair of youth. She suggests by allusion to Tennyson that youthful sorrows can also lead to personal awakening. In the story...

LTM published A Sweet Girl-Graduate, whose title (originally from Tennyson 's The Princess) has been much used by other writers).

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.