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Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Walker | The volume has two epigraphs: from Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi
and from Rainer Maria Rilke
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 231 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ali Smith | As each book in this series relates to one of Shakespeare
's plays, this one relates to Pericles, and the artist that it relates to is |
Textual Production | Ali Smith | In addition to these collaborative works, AS
has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)... |
Education | Penelope Shuttle | At seventeen, she says (after the successive discoveries of Charlotte Brontë
, T. S. Eliot
and Emily Dickinson
), she began reading Rilke
. Everything opened up then, a whole new world of poetry for me. Mslexia. Mslexia Publications. 47 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8. 48 |
Textual Features | Penelope Shuttle | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Shuttle | PSwrites five mornings per week and, when a fragment hits, always has a notebook to hand. She always leaves first drafts to settle for a few weeks. Influences on her writing, she says, include... |
Textual Production | Jo Shapcott | JS
's Tender Taxes: Versions of Rilke's French Poems presented her translations from the poems written in French by the native German speaker Rainer Maria Rilke
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Shapcott, Jo. Tender Taxes. Faber and Faber. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | In a foreword she explains her surprise and pleasure when she learned that Rilke had written four hundred poems in French as well as his poems in German, most of them at the end of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | She describes the writings that resulted from this relationship as not translation from Rilke
but responses, arguments, even dramatisations. Shapcott, Jo. Tender Taxes. Faber and Faber. ix |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Windows, marked with times running from 10 a.m. to midnight, renders a sequence called Les Fenêtres, which Rilke's lover Merline, or Balandine Klossowska
, published in the year after his death, a... |
Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | Germaine Greer
's Poems for Gardeners, 2003, includes several of the sensuous little 2-stanza poems that are Shapcott's version of Rainer Maria Rilke
's Les Roses, and printed in her Tender Taxes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jo Shapcott | Her lectures deal with the way poets are transformed by what they read, with her own relationships with Rainer Maria Rilke
(whom she has translated), Elizabeth Bishop
, and others, and with the question of... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published her translation from German of Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke
, done with her cousin Eddy Sackville-West
. Eddy later inherited Knole and became Lord Sackville. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 371n1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Denise Levertov | Here DL
discusses in detail those poets she had found most vital for her own work: William Carlos Williams
, Robert Duncan
, and Rainer Maria Rilke
. |
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