Llangollen

• JoEllen DeLucia 2015


  Locates Anna Seward 'between the neoclassical and romantic' similar to Byron. Her poem is marked by 'gaps and abrupt turns.'
• JoEllen DeLucia - Plas Newydd


  A space of 'exile and dislocation'
• Susan S. Lanser 2005


  Describes Byron's inclusion of Butler and Ponsonby "epitome of virtue and a transgression of social and sexual norms,"
• Ruth Vanita 1996


  'a public myth of themselves'
• Helena Whitbread. 2010


  'Their reputations became greatly enhanced by the way in which they epitomised the romantic image of a life lived simply, in harmony with nature.'
• Henry F. Cary – Sonnet (1796, in LV and Other Poems)

  -        haunts romantic.

  -        garish Sun but seldom gleams,

  -        fair WANDERERS

  -        fond Friendship's gentle power decreed.

  -        hallow'd Vale 

  -        simple shrine.
• Lord Byron – Letter to Bridget Pigot (1807)

  we shall put Lady E. Butler and Miss Ponsonby to the blush, Pylades and Orestes out of countenance, and want nothing but a catastrophe like Nisus and Euryalus, to give Jonathan and David the ‘go by.’”
• William Wordsworth – To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. (c.1824)

  -        Predominantly Spenserian rather than Petrarchan, but he does dip into P. Unusual for Wordsworth. Separates this poem out. (Lanser acknowledgement)

  -        So styled by those fierce Britons

  -        Expression of repose’ on ‘Nature’s face’

  -        Glyn Cafaillgaroch – Vale of Friendship

  -        ‘faithful’

  -        ‘ye have abode so long’.

  -        ‘Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb,/ Even on this earth, above the reach of Time!’
• Anna Seward, Llangollen Vale, 1796

  “Then rose the Fairy Palace of the Vale,/ Then bloom’d around it the Arcadian bowers;”

  ‘soon they rose,/ To letter’d ease devote, and Friendship’s blest repose.’

  letters - ‘the little Eden,’ and ‘my little Elysium.’

  What time great GLENDOUR gave thy scenes to Fame.

  Freedom’s flame

  Beauty's romantic pomp in every sylvan maze.
• Anna Seward, Sonnet, September 1799


  ‘Friendship and Fancy’s consecrated shrine!’

  Here oft They muse the noon-tide hours away, / Who gild thy Vale with Intellectual ray.