Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Education | Jeni Couzyn | JC
describes her younger self as a solitary child, rebellious and defiant, challenging everything and everyone. Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books. 217 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
sent a letter of congratulation when the young poet Dylan Thomas
had a poem published (as she had recently had herself) in the Sunday Referee; their correspondence became frequent and personal before they... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jeni Couzyn | Jeni's sisters offered early poetic encouragement, and provided a connection between literature, as learned in school, and poems written privately. When she was about fifteen, JC
remembers one of her sisters giving her two LP... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During the 1930s ES
discovered the work of an unknown and very young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas
. She threw herself with vigour into promoting him, and took up the cudgels on his behalf when... |
Friends, Associates | Hélène Barcynska | Friends of HB
and her husband during these years included Gwyn Jones
, editor of the Welsh Review, George Green
of the University of Wales
, actress Violet Lamb
, and novelist Ruby M. Ayres |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people), Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 112 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company
, EW
also met Morley Callaghan
, who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray
, A. J. M. Smith
, Robert Weaver |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 115 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
Leisure and Society | William Empson | Empson was a heavy social drinker all his life (at one time a drinking companion of Dylan Thomas
). Haffenden remarks that in China he gained well-deserved status in the Chinese classical tradition of venerably... |
Literary responses | Kathleen Nott | In the TLSG. S. Fraser
remarked that her poetry was difficult but rewarding, and likened it in different aspects to that of Dylan Thomas
, George Barker
, and William Empson
. He concluded:... |
Literary responses | Ann Hatton | In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH
's novels in the British Library
. In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they... |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The citation for the prize called her one of the most exquisite word artists of our day. Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 2, pp. 29-30. 29 |