John Donne

These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...

The court decided in favour of the children, and Anne subsequently moved to London where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Bridget, Lady Kingsmill, for most of her childhood. Lady Kingsmill had been a friend...

On the first page the protagonist in this very confusing story signs in to a hotel called the Black Swan under the name of Nelly Dean. She asks for a double room, saying she expects...

She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy . Christianity was everywhere in the syllabus and...

Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley 's famous praise of Philips the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet.

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...

Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman

Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...

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...

The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton , and Donne , they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC did read a Shakespeare sonnet at about this age and...

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...

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

Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...

Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe and Ben Jonson , and a letter from John Donne , make casual charges connecting...

She was buried two days later, on 6 August 1609. At least two of her former detractors, Jonson and Donne , wrote verse commemorations after her death.