author: richard cronin

Robert Browning: Selected Writings

... character is a Venusian trapped in a world that seems to him unimaginably ... sheet , that is , a single sheet of paper . 1. 39. recording chief - inquisitor ... inquisitor , or grand inquisitor , that is , the head of the Holy Office of the ...

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II

... no disease but idleness' (Strictures on the Modern System of Female ... game of Pharo (alternatively Faro, or Pharaoh, derived from the fact that ... life] Gout is characterized by a painful inflammation of the smaller joints, especially ...

1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads

... anti- jacobin texts are merely extensions , so to speak , of Godwin's own ... vagabond ' suggests thieving for men ( code , this , for Godwin's notorious ... anti - jacobin counter- part to subvert this apparently seductive practicality ...

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 6

... anti-Jacobin diatribe, first mildly, as in the anonymous Berkeley Hall, but quickly rather more vitriolically, as in George Walker's The Vagabond.45 Increasingly fearing massive shortages of skilled labour and dire social and economic ...

George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist

... Harry Richmond's, was always opal-like. Harry dreams of 'bloom and mystery, a woman shifting like the light with ... Stendhal's De l'Amour. 'I think de Stendhal very subtle and observant,' he remarked: 'He goes over ground that I know ...

Reading Victorian Poetry

... poem: 'But, in this last book, / You showed me something separate from yourself'. (8, 605–6) When the poem was half completed, she described it to her mentor, John Kenyon, as the 'autobiography of a poetess – (not me).'8 In the dash and ...

Reading Victorian Poetry

... Silent Noon' by a 'twofold silence'. The sonnet, a verse form defined by the division between octave and sestet that Rossetti always marked on the page, is constituted, as 'Silent Noon' intimates, by its twofoldedness, or, as the ...

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