Fyge, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Nutt.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fyge | In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF
calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, Fyge, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Nutt. 22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Louisa Stuart | The story recalls that of Chaucer
's Wyf of Bath's Tale. A Scottish chieftain has three ugly daughters: his formidable wife makes him marry the ugliest of all to his defeated, handsome enemy, instead... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The first act makes brilliant use of historical anachronism, bringing together six women—some fictional, some actual—from different historical periods: nineteenth-century Scottish traveller Isabella Bird
; Lady Nijo
, a thirteenth-century Japanese courtesan turned nun; the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Djuna Barnes | Phillip Herring
calls Ryderessentially an autobiographical family chronicle in experimental form. Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin. 141 Broe, Mary Lynn. “Introduction”. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 3-23. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | Many of these tales are unequivocally charming for a modern reader, but not so Gaude Maria, a version of the story which Chaucer
used for his Prioress's Tale, about a poor widow's pious... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Roper | More is represented as addressing Margaret alternatively as daughter Marget and mother Eve, McCutcheon, Elizabeth. “Margaret More Roper: The Learned Woman in Tudor England”. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 449-80. 473 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Williams | The framework of a group of cultured people standing for different points of view and exchanging ideas owes something to Thomas Love Peacock
's Headlong Hall, 1816 (also set in Wales), but Williams is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid
and imitated by Chaucer
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and others, and popularly called Go, little book... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | The real new departure in this book is The Teacher's Tale. Cope's homage to Chaucer
is clear in her fast-running, colloquial narrative and her clear moral scheme of enjoyment and freedom on one side... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Lee | SL
's frame story delightfully introduces the series. Her narrator is a male poet, poverty-stricken but eager for fame. Having been driven out of his house by bailiffs, he goes sightseeing and is snowed in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
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