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Textual Production | Susan Hill | The new publishing firm of Sinclair-Stevenson
issued SH
's first novel in seventeen years, besides The Woman in Black: it was entitled Air and Angels, after a poem by Donne
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Hill, Susan. Mrs. de Winter. Sinclair-Stevenson. end pages |
Textual Production | P. D. James | |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War. The title comes from a passage by John Donne
, where he imagines catastrophic change, such as... |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon
to Coventry Patmore
, she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems... |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell
, A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby
, who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne
into Italian. Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg. 16 |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 330, 332 |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | In her first novel, Imagined Corners, WM
examined the repression and fragmentation of the self through two women who bear the same name but present opposing images of femininity. Her title comes from John Donne |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne
's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding
, the lawyer on circuit. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1976 Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
Textual Features | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In this piece Orinda tells Lucasia: For thou art all that I can prize, / My Joy, my Life, my rest. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 121 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich |
Timeline
c.1590-1601: John Donne composed the famous lyrics which...
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c.1590-1601
John Donne
composed the famous lyrics which were posthumously published and later known as Songs and Sonnets.
30 April 1615: John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich,...
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30 April 1615
John Donne
preached To the Queen
at Greenwich, his earliest surviving sermon.
12 February 1631: Six weeks before his own death, John Donne...
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12 February 1631
Six weeks before his own death, John Donne
preached his sermon later printed as Death's Duell.
1633: John Donne's Poems were posthumously published...
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1633
John Donne
's Poems were posthumously published with his initials.
19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...
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19 February 1640
LXXX Sermons by John Donne
was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton
's biography of him.
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
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2 February 1651
The second of Izaak Walton
's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...
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19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
16 July 1945: The world's first detonation of an atomic...
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16 July 1945
The world's first detonation of an atomic bomb took place at the Trinity Site at Alamogordo: in the desert outside Los Alamos, New Mexico.
May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...
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May 2009
The BBC
aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems of John Donne. Editor Patrides, Constantinos A., J. M. Dent, 1985.