John Donne

The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC explained to Colette Bryce , comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis , in which a...

A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...

In this piece Orinda tells Lucasia: For thou art all that I can prize, / My Joy, my Life, my rest.KP 's passionate poems of female friendship have a distinctly metaphysical tone...

In this collection, Rich shows her engagement with the predominantly male Anglo-American poetic tradition, which includes Donne , Keats , Frost , Stevens , Thomas , and with the ideal, espoused by Auden, of detachment...

This convent was linked with that of the nun and writer Gertrude More (who died in 1633) and her sister and cousins, all of whom were closely related to John Donne . It had been...

Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry (1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill (The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

Charles A. Huttar has praised AL 's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons calls the sonnets her most...

This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...

During CB 's lifetime Ben Jonson attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne eulogized her morals and also her wit.

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. The title (quoted from John Donne , which misleadingly suggests fulfilled sexual passion) was the...

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...

WT keeps in close touch with family members through her letters, expressing her sense of involvement through her anxiety for Jesuit brothers travelling invisibly around England, or her concern for the different problems of a...

These poems reflect gender power struggles: whether writing about motherhood, or the end of a marriage, or travelling by train to a Women's Liberation conference (another display / of all the frayed edges)...