John Donne

ENC went on to receive an MA in English literature from University College , Cork. She says that her generation was brought up on poets like Donne and Hopkins .

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...

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.

The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie . Its title comes from Donne (By our first strange and fatal interview); it replaced...

The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author...

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...

RM published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War.

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

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...

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...

At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne , Gerard Manley Hopkins , and Robert Graves .

PDJ returned to detective novels with The Skull beneath the Skin, bringing back her female detective Cordelia Gray after a nine-year absence.

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 .

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine