John Milton

But the anxiety evident in EBB 's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier , the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread...

The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Starr pronounced in 1931: As a literary production, The Concealed Fansyes is practically without value.He noted its general and specific indebtedness to Ben Jonson , asserted a likeness between its pair of brothers and...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

Fox describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem. However, scholar Richard Garnett pronounced less...

Mary Delany said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully s, Homer s, and Milton s. Though Homer and Cicero are connected chiefly with oral texts, the inclusion of Milton suggests that Delany...

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...

The many editions of CS 's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

Wordsworth chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton 's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of...

The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would...

In the second volume the grown-up Theodora is living in London, a great reader, and acquainted with the royal family: she is impolite to the Princess Royal when the latter interrupts her reading of Milton

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. She worked as an entertainer of several kinds, acting in regular...

Dante's known poetry begins with La vita nuova (The New Life in English), a work in both verse and prose about his famous love for the married Beatrice, which was probably finished by 1293...