Crommelin, May, editor. Poets in the Garden. T. Fisher Unwin.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cooper | She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope
(that time, which has made Chaucer
unintelligible, will one day do the same with... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
Author summary | Wendy Cope | WC
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | Again many poems first appeared in periodicals, from Mslexia to the Times Literary Supplement. Again there were earlier separate printings and particular commissions. An extended narrative poem, The Teacher's Tale, was commissioned for... |
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... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also... |
Textual Features | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The article is a short biography of John Wycliffe
. CFC
refers to him as a talented theologian and our first great reformer, who contributed (through his translation of the Bible into English, finished in... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer
and Shakespeare
onwards. |
death | John Dryden | After an immediate burial at St Anne's Church, Soho, Dryden was given a Westminster Abbey funeral and buried in the grave of Chaucer
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carol Ann Duffy | Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer
and Shakespeare
, stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland
, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:... |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska
, who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer
's Troilus and Criseyde. This... |
Timeline
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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