Nicholl, Charles. “On the Sixth Day”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 3, pp. 23-6. 24
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a... |
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
... |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The narrator for most of the story is Alfred Gaveston, son of the actual Piers Gaveston
who is notorious in history as the favourite of Edward II
. (Piers Gaveston in fact had one or... |
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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | LR
published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer
, Robert Henryson
, and Shakespeare
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 296 Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland. 60 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | Nicolete Damer in the story is called after the medieval legend of Aucassin and Nicolette just as her closest brother is called Cassy, short for Aucassin. Richard Le Gallienne
had made extensive reference to the... |
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... |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | |
Textual Production | Christina Stead | Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies
had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another... |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
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