John Milton

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

The title-page quotes from Milton 's Samson Agonistes. An address To the Dethroned Sovereign Truth hopes for the restoration of this power which, says the author, is still present although obsolete and obscure. Her...

As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Charlotte Lennox is alluded to in this book (though AG gives her birth name wrongly as Massey), along with the more highly-ranked Milton and Johnson (whose Life of Savage she echoes, without naming...

The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...

AS was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. When she was fifteen Erasmus Darwin , who had formed a high opinion of the originality of her verses, took an opportunity while...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson 's Ossian on the title-page and Robert Blair (The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare and Milton for the succeeding volumes. It opens...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

In metre and general tone it remembers Milton 's L'Allegro.

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

Most striking of all is A Diologue between the Serpentt and Eve, which may have been written on the model of the speeches in Milton 's Paradise Lost, but does not refer to...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...