Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Such black designs are strangers to our breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: October 7, 2011
"In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper."
preview | full record— Horowitz, Alexandra
Date: February 3, 2012
"Confronted by a vertiginous cascade of allusions, each one pointing to yet another unknown, retreating to the snail shell of the mind seems a whole lot more attractive: a poem responds to you, you don't respond to it."
preview | full record— Samet, Elizabeth D.
Date: December 11, 2014
"Marginalia is a blow struck against the idea that reading is a one-way process, that readers simply open their minds and the great, unmediated thoughts of the author pour in."
preview | full record— Miller, Laura
Date: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)