Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Textual Production | W. B. Yeats | WBY
published The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. His idiosyncratic selection included Alice Meynell
, Ezra Pound
, Edith Sitwell
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, and his friend Dorothy Wellesley
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 280n27 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Underhill | EU
and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Evelyn Underhill | After she met Rabindranath Tagore
, then at the height of fame, in 1912, EU
went on to write three reviews of his books for the Nation. The two
maintained a friendship and correspondence... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
wrote several biographical articles on religious figures, including St Paul
, Julian of Norwich
, Angela de Foligno
, Kabir
, St Thérèse of Lisieux
, and Devendranath Tagore
(father of poet Rabindranath Tagore |
Publishing | May Sinclair | MS
praised Rabindranath Tagore
's Gitanjali in a piece for the North American Review which hails him as a modern, a very modern poet. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 194 Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 194 and n43 |
Textual Features | May Sinclair | This work devotes time to Western and Eastern mysticism, and presents Tagore
as one who was able successfully to bridge the two. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 264 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | During her stay in India, EPL
met the poet Rabindranath Tagore
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 338 |
Textual Production | Grace Nichols | The collection features black writers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Britain and the USA, including Edward Kamau Brathwaite
, Zinziswa Mandela
, Maya Angelou
, and Rabindranath Tagore
, alongside traditional and folk poems. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Hedblad, Allan, editor. Something About the Author 98. Gale Research. 125 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarojini Naidu | Her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyaya
, was a professor at Nizam College
. According to SN
, he was a great dreamer, a great man whose life has been a magnificent failure. Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House. 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | Clusters of poems in this volume bear epigraphs pointing to both Eastern and Western influences: The Flowering Year quotes Shelley
, while The Peacock Lute and The Temple: A Pilgrimage of Love quote Omar Khayyàm |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The group's founders emphasised exchanges between Asian and British literary cultures; they named it after Rabindrath Tagore
's prose-poem collection The Crescent Moon (1903), after they brought Tagore
to Beijing via the Society for Lectures on the New Learning |
Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | In the later 1920s LS was involved with the Crescent Moon Society
, dedicated to nurturing modern writing in China. The collective (named after a volume of poetry by Rabindrath Tagore
) of writers and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 66 |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
translated a selection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
, entitled I Won't Let You Go. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. Ketaki Kushari Dyson. http://www.virgiliolibro.com/kkd/. Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/. |