James Hafley
“Ellen Dean is the villain of the piece, one of the most consumate villains in English literature”
Woolf- the moors
The moors “Carry on the emotion and light up the meaning of the book”
Albert J Guerard
“Splendid, imperfect novel which Bronte loses control over occasionally”
Sonnet 116- Tucker Brooke
“no strangeness about it except the strangeness of perfection”
Marvell on Wilmot
“the best English satirist”
Absent from thee- Marianne Thormahalen
“the relationship between the speaker and his addressee resembles the one between an errant sinner and god”
Ae fond kiss- Luke McBratney
“Balancing feelings of deep love and deep pain”
La Belle- Mary De Reyes
“gives the very spirit of the old romance world” “intense lyrical feeling”
Wilde on Dowson
“Poor wounded wonderful fellow” “he knew what love was”
Rumens on Dowson
“ability to melt down the staccato language, English, till it flowed like a Romance language”