Nicholas Rowe (writer) said to have suggested to Samuel Richardson the character of Clarissa Harlowe, as Lothario suggested Lovelace. Samuel Johnson noted of "The Fair Penitent" that, "The story is domestic, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft or spritely as occasion requires." In 1704, Rowe tried his hand at comedy, producing "The Biter" at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was unsuccessful, and Rowe returned to tragedy in "Ulysses" (1706). According to Johnson, this play was to share the fate of many such plays based on mythological heroes, as, "We have been
A Dream of Fair Women of Fair Women" was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's 1384 work "The Legend of Good Women"; both works feature Cleopatra and deal with the misfortunes of illustrious women. A Dream of Fair Women A Dream of Fair Women is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was written in 1833, though republished and heavily changed in its 1842 republication. "A Dream of Fair Women" was originally titled 'Legend of Fair Women'. The poem was revised in most versions published between 1833 and 1853, and has been described as a masterpiece. The opening excerpt of the poem is: "As when a man,