Alfred Tennyson

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

This classic story opens with Rachel Treherne, unmarried and in her thirties, coming in a state of acute anxiety to consult Miss Silver at the latter's home, which is also her office. Rachel's colouring should...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.

Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

Verona's title poem embeds a number of lyrics within its novelistic structure. Tennyson 's influence is particularly apparent in Serenada, which opens: Now folds the cistus, now / The lemon-blossom sleeps (echoing...

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...