John Milton

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...

The title-page quotes Milton and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare or Byron or attributed only...

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)...

MLCC provides a sketch of Collingwood's naval career, with accounts of some of his major battles. As by degrees the storms arise, / 'Till hurricanes obscure the skies, / So his tremendous fire increas'd, /...

The title-page quotes Milton on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has...

Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton , Gray , Edward Young . She imitates Pope on solitude, writes first of James Hervey 's...

The sonnets are written in strict Milton ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd . In rendering Horace...

HMB published, anonymously, a long poem entitled Creation, and Other Poems: To Which Are Added, the Bowers of Happiness, a Vision, and an Essay on Sacred Poetry, which she claimed to have written without...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost on conscience as the guide within. The heroines named in the title are sisters: Clara Welford née Gower is already unhappily married to a rake and gambler...