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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The Pilgrim's Progress was the first bestseller in English literary history. Part I written almost certainly during the second half of John Bunyan's first imprisonment, 1660-72, and published in 1678, had gone through 13...
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From: Graham Greene: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Kelly provides a plot-oriented overview of the stories collected in The Last Word while demonstrating how each tale fits in with the aesthetic and stylistic development of...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Smulders examines the structural and poetic content of Rossetti's verse book for children, Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book.] Christina Rossetti's collections of verse...
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From: The SpectatorMiss Rossetti has never again come up to the level she reached in Goblin Market. There was a freshness, simplicity, and originality in that little goblin story which reminded us of Hans Christian Andersen, and yet a...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn Donne's Anniversaries commemorate the death of Elizabeth Drury, a young woman whom Donne never met. Although Robert Drury, Elizabeth's father, likely commissioned the poems, they appear, nonetheless, to be textbook...
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From: The CriticIt will be no new news to reading Americans that they can find a delightful cicerone for their wanderings about Great Britain in the person of Mrs. Riggs—or Mrs. Wiggin, as her publishers prefer to call her, in a...
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From: William Cowper: Humanitarian[(essay date 1938) In the following essay, Hartley describes Cowper's view of education, arguing that although Cowper's ideas are based mainly on religion, they can still serve as general suggestions on the topic.] 1...
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From: Women's History Review[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Hodges, the editor of all of du Maurier's work from 1943 to 1981, offers an assessment of her writing skill, her personality, and the connections between her novels and her...
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From:[Mackail was an English critic, biographer, and educator whose books include The Springs of Helicon (1909) and Studies in Humanism (1938). Primarily devoted to the study of Greek and English poetry, Mackail's work...
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From: The Fortnightly ReviewIt is convenient to call [Christina Rossetti's] verse lyric, but the term is not strictly correct.... It is assuredly not Epic; it is never exactly Elegiac, nor is it ever really Narrative verse. Most particularly it is...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Alice Munro is not an explicitly political or feminist writer, nor does she write autobiography. However, her stories are largely concerned with the struggle between rebellion and respectability; they dramatize the...
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From: The Correspondence of Thomas Warton[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Fairer describes Warton's importance as a literary figure.] On the evening of 20 March 1776 Dr. Johnson and Boswell, who were on a visit to Oxford together, went round to...
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From: Journal of Canadian Studies[(review date summer 1998) In the following review, Thacker surveys several critical works on Munro's fiction and concludes that reviewers tend to focus on aspects of her stories that support their own viewpoints and...
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From: CLIOGiven his intention in Wonderful Life to explain “the nature of history itself,” we might expect Stephen Jay Gould to describe the rise and fall of nations and states, the triumphs and tragedies of great leaders, or even...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In his essay "A Poem's Becoming" (In Radical Pursuit), W.D. Snodgrass charts the evolution of his verse from the densely composed, ambiguous lyrics of his early years at the University of Iowa to a style of "becoming,"...
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From: The Broadway Journal[Of] all the friends of the fair author [Elizabeth Barrett], we doubt whether one exists, with more profound—with more enthusiastic reverence and admiration of her genius, than the writer of these words. And it is for...
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From: Mary Wollstonecraft: A Study in Economics and Romance[In the following excerpt, Taylor assesses several of Wollstonecraft's major works.] Although her little book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was by no means an exciting episode in Mary Wollstonecraft's life,...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1996) In the following essay, Cahalan discusses how Abbey's Eastern roots--including his experiences in Appalachia--contributed to his identity as a Western writer.] Edward Abbey is part of a long...
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From: Modernism Reconsidered[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Mallon provides an overview of Sassoon's literary career and examines the lasting impact of his war experiences on his writing.] The stage nerves Siegfried Sassoon may have...
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From: Victorian Poetry[(essay date winter 2001) In the following essay, Dillon maintains that Barrett Browning frequently explored poetic articulation of emotional outbursts that express ecstasy, pain, or despair.] O Hyacinthes, for ay...