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Literary responses | Samuel Beckett | Dylan Thomas
called this novel Freud
ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah. Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 59 Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 21 |
Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | This piece received high praise. The poet and novelist John Wain
in The Sunday Telegraph compared it to Dylan Thomas
and Louis MacNeice
in its attainment of that rarely attained genre, the pure radio work... |
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... |
Occupation | Anna Wickham | Dylan Thomas
and Malcolm Lowry
were among those who stayed. She built an enduring friendship with Lowry, but had quarrels with Thomas which ended in throwing him out of her house. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Occupation | Edith Sitwell | |
Reception | Maya Angelou | This vitality and optimism has made MA
's poems a favourite of teachers, motivators, and those who exchange tips for living on the internet. In 2016 an Ontario poet, Kathy Figueroa
, noticed on the... |
Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The paper had decided to offer this annual prize for the best of the pieces printed in its Poet's Corner column (brainchild of Victor Neuburg
). The prize was the publication by subsidy of the... |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then. Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press. 128 |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Eavan Boland
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
, Dana Gioia
, Seamus Heaney
, Louis MacNeice
, and R. S. Thomas |
Textual Features | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novel traces the careers of a number of characters including the central figures of three writers, a woman and two men. For all of them those politically fraught years were their formative period. Kit... |
Textual Features | Gillian Clarke | The letter, she says, is one that might be written to all men by a woman who had plans to leave the ordered, domestic world of her mothers and grandmothers, but who decided to stay... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | JM
's book takes in the climate, history, and national character as embodied in personalities from Owain Glendwr
to Dylan Thomas
, of this small country, in many ways the archetype of a small country. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 174 |
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