The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2)

The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) - or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.

Page CHAPTER I. Carew's Celia.Lucy Sacheverel 1 CHAPTER II. Waller's Sacharissa 15 CHAPTER III. [Pg vi]Beauties and Poets in the Reign of Charles I. 33 CHAPTER IV. Conjugal Poetry. Ovid and PerillaSeneca's PaulinaSulpiciaClotilde de Surville 43 CHAPTER V. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Vittoria Colonna 60 CHAPTER VI. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Veronica GambaraCamilla ValentiniPortia RotaCastiglione 81 CHAPTER VII. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Doctor Donne and his WifeHabington's Castara 94 CHAPTER VIII. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) The Two Zappi 131 CHAPTER IX. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) [Pg vii]Lord LytteltonPrince FrederickDoctor Parnell 139 CHAPTER X. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Klopstock and Meta 154 CHAPTER XI. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Bonnie JeanHighland MaryLoves of Burns 182 CHAPTER XII. Conjugal Poetry (continued.) Monti and his Wife 209 CHAPTER XIII. Poets and Beauties from Charles II. to Queen Anne. Cowley's EleonoraMaria d'EsteAnne KillegrewLady HydeGranville's MiraPrior's ChloeDuchess of Queensbury 218 CHAPTER XIV. Swift, Stella and Vanessa 240 CHAPTER XV. [Pg viii]Pope and Martha Blount 274 CHAPTER XVI. Pope and Lady M. W. Montagu 287 CHAPTER XVII. Poetical old Bachelors. GrayCollinsGoldsmithShenstoneThomsonHammond 308 CHAPTER XVIII. French Poets. Voltaire and Madame du ChteletMadame de Gouvern 317 CHAPTER XIX. French Poets (continued.) Madame d'Houdetot 333 CONCLUSION. Heroines of Modern Poetry 342 From the reign of Charles the First may be dated that revolution in the spirit and form of our lyric poetry, which led to its subsequent degradation. The first Italian school of poetry, to which we owed our Surreys, our Spensers, and our Miltons, had now declined. The high contemplative tone of passion, the magnanimous and chivalrous homage paid to women, gradually gave way before the French taste and French gallantry, introduced, or at least encouraged and[Pg 2] rendered fashionable, by Henrietta Maria and her gay household. The muse of amatory poetry (I presume there is such a Muse, though I know not to which of the Nine the title properly applies,) no longer walked the earth star-crowned and vestal-robed, "col dir pien d'intelletti, dolci ed alti,""with love upon her lips, and looks commercing with the skies;"she suited her garb to the fashion of the times, and tripped along in guise of an Arcadian princess, half regal, half pastoral, trailing a sheep-hook crowned with flowers, and sparkling with foreign ornaments, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35416
Author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Release Date: Feb 27, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English