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Socrates
Standard Name: Socrates
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé.... |
Education | Anne Carson | Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC
eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cellier | Midwives, EC
argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | William Holman Hunt
wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. |
Education | Catherine Cookson | Once married, CC
set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare
to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates
a help... |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | |
Textual Features | Hélène Gingold | 'Tis not a woman's happiness quite To be a great man's mate. I do bethink That poor Xantippe not worse than others was. History relateth not her griefs, but those of Socrates . Gingold, Hélène. Abelard and Heloise. Greening. 69 |
Textual Production | Mary Hays | The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor
, and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates
. While pregnant with her son Edward she... |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Xantippe was the wife of Socrates
, who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL
sets out to rehabilitate her character in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Lyttelton | Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of... |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | Andrew Cruikshank
spoke as Socrates
and Greg Hicks
as Plato
. The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986. |
Timeline
18 November 1477: Having set up a printing shop in Westminster...
Writing climate item
18 November 1477
Having set up a printing shop in Westminster the previous year, William Caxton
published The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers; the earliest dated book printed in England.
Texts
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