John Milton

LA 's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...

The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon . GHS quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid through Milton and Wordsworth

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

Milton was clearly an inspiration to Gray because of his blindness: this shows a fair level of self-confidence in her. The author's name appears with the description blind from her infancy, which emphasises the charitable...

The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. According to critic...

The poem's third part reveals some of the sources of MDF 's radicalism by looking forward to Christ 's reign on earth, which will seize power from Antichrist as the revolutionaries in France have seized...

The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch , Shakespeare , Milton , and Germaine de Staël . FH

How, she asks, can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? She mentions the tradition of misogynist writing, and suggests that men have had exclusive...

MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau

The new Juvenilia Press edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and...

Quotations heading chapters come from Milton and other mostly modern poets, including Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson . Other inset poems may be EFC 's own. The story opens as Portuguese peasants encounter a fainting...

Her allegorical poem Bring Me Word How Tall She Is begins Within a garden shade,
A garden sweet and dim,
Two happy children played
Together; he was made
For God, and she for him.

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Greenwell, Dora. Camera Obscura. Daldy, Isbister, 1876.

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MJ mentions her reading (or running over) as reaching from Milton 's Paradise Lost to popular ballads, even taking in Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, but her favourite was Pope .

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...