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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
Leisure and Society | Jeanette Winterson | Believing strongly that no writer in English can be ignorant of English literature, JW
told an interviewer that she reads or re-reads for about five hours a day, choosing sometiimes obscure authors from Chaucer
to... |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found this method of compiling stories (the method of Boccaccio
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) effective for stringing together a number of diverse tales told... |
Occupation | William Morris | Between then and 1898 it produced fifty-three books. WM
's The Story of the Glittering Plain (April 1891) was the first. The fortieth was the famous Chaucer
(1896) containing eighty-seven wood-cuts by Edward Burne-Jones
... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Occupation | Petrarch | The acclaim that Petrarch won in his lifetime shifted smoothly into a high reputation after his death. The first English author to refer to him was Chaucer
. Nicholl, Charles. “On the Sixth Day”. London Review of Books, Vol. 41 , No. 3, pp. 23-6. 24 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
Occupation | Giovanni Boccaccio | GB
's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used... |
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... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Christine de Pisan | Christine de Pisan
's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in Richard Pynson
's edition of Chaucer
as The Morall proverbes of Christyne. Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property. University of Chicago Press. 87, 92 |
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... |
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