Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1995, pp. 161-83.
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W. H. Auden
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Standard Name: Auden, W. H.
Used Form: Wystan Hugh Auden
WHA
has been called the outstanding poet of his generation. His prolific output of poetry is endlessly versatile, often deeply personal but usually also carrying political freight, often experimental, combining the classical and the colloquial, the lyric and the deliberately prosaic. He wrote a great deal in collaboration, often for stage or even operatic performance. He was a riveting lecturer and an unsystematic but always stimulating literary critic.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's adult friends included artists and writers such as Gertrude Hermes
, Storm Jameson
, Goldie Lowes Dickinson
, Julian Trevelyan
, Gerald Heard
, and Rudi Messel
. Among the close friends were... |
| Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves), |
| Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's well-known contributors included Dick Mitchison
, John Pilley
, Margaret Cole
, and W. H. Auden
. The project was born during the run-up to the 1931 election. Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992. 82 Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 169-70 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | This indicates how the second world war turned her thoughts back towards the first. She noted the feeling of being on a small island of sand, cut off from past and future, and how wireless... |
| Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Edmund Wilson
disliked this work, apparently because the communist in it is just as ridiculous as the stockbroker, so that no authoritative, authorized, left-wing voice is supplied. qtd. in Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 406 qtd. in Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 405 |
| Textual Production | Candia McWilliam | CMW
published her second novel, A Little Stranger, dedicated to Clara Henderson
, with stanzas from Auden
's poem Trinculo's Song as an epigraph. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. McWilliam, Candia. A Little Stranger. Bloomsbury, 1989. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carson McCullers | She had the idea for the title novella when she and editor George Davis
and poet W. H. Auden
were in a bar where other customers included a woman who was tall and strong as... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |
| Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to |
| politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
, like many of the left-wing intellectuals in the inter-war period, supported the fight against fascism in Spain. Her husband Wogan and many of her male friends, including Auden
, joined the International Brigade |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jennings | As a teenager, EJ
read T. S. Eliot
and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
has said that at this date she was beginning to achieve in her work a certain mastery of form qtd. in Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985. 100 |
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