George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

Though this novel shares some terrain with Gissing 's New Grub Street, critic Margaret Stetz finds that the two have little in common, since they take aim at very different aspects of the contemporary...

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

MS wrote mainly in verse for a working-class audience with the intent of instilling moral virtues in her readers. She believed that children memorize poetry easily, and that their imaginations are cultivated and their intellects...

In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick , EJ 's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys...

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

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

This tale reached its fifth edition independently of the other Tales in 1823, when it appeared as a kind of trailer to John Murray 's projected edition of the whole series. Byron recognised Kruitzner as...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron 's Childe Harold. An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...

EH writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim...

Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron , and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child...

Ziska is openly critical of the writings of Zola , while praising those of Lord Byron . It also condemns the hypocrisy and destruction of Western imperialism at the fin de siècle: We take possession...

The poem describes the pilgrimage abroad in which the child-author had followed in the footsteps of her dead mountaineer brother. His death, however, does not loom large in the poem, which combines musing with...