Walt Whitman

LL wrote her first poem, The Visit, while she was studying at the Glasgow School of Art in the mid-1960s. She included it in her first collection, Memo For Spring. By 1970 she...

The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman 's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long. She was asked to write this...

The novel's title alludes to the biblical pronouncement that the wages of sin is death (a title which begs to be read ironically, since punishment catches up with each of LM 's sinners after acts...

On a more abstract level the novel is an investigation into the workings of liberty, imagination, friendship, passion, the influence of nature on human life, male-female relations, and the imperfections of current social arrangements (under...

She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking (to their indignation) and...

This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...

Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche.

This book drew mixed reviews. It was praised for being in the tradition of Whitman and blamed for being almost never poetry.

When she moved to London, STW was committed to a career as a musicologist. She studied music composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams and composed a Requiem for string quartet and voice (to words from...

Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of...

HSW 's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare , Coleridge , and Whitman —and she read...

She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg

Walt Whitman paid tribute to FW as a woman of the noblest make-up whose orbit was a great deal larger than [those who condemned her]—too large to be tlerated for long by them: a most...