Algernon Charles Swinburne

MLM had the habit of reading her stories to her own children from manuscripts tucked inside the covers of printed books, so that she would be able to solicit their opinion and know them to...

When EN asked Bernard Shaw to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair...

RWB was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Charles MacKay , now finding it difficult to write, became increasingly pressed to procure a healthy income. Fortunately, one of his physicians was impressed with MC 's piano-playing and he offered his drawing-room for a...

She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the influence of Swinburne and the Pre-Raphaelites on this and later volumes by LH .

In England, Swinburne helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866).

Again, however, the Athenæum had a reservation: this time the influence of Swinburne , which it detected in alliteration and other points of technique.

She was excited by her first experience of the south, and called Cambridge a city of light. As a teacher in London, she lived first at 164 Engadine Street in Southfields, south-west London...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...

Some of the fifteen poems chronicle the end of a love affair, perhaps foreshadowing her own marital crisis. Scholar Linda K. Hughes notes the influence of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Jean Ingelow ...

Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Other titles in this volume...

A. S. Byatt finds in this volume a mournful Arcadian tone, thinly ecstatic, and owing much to Swinburne and Housman .

MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London, and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences had reduced his health and finances and made...