Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon | The title (shamelessly re-used by verse anthologists working after EF
) is a quotation from Keats
's Ode to a Nightingale, where the magic windows open on the foam / Of perilous seas, in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Bernardine Evaristo | BE
substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Buchi Emecheta | During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Dunmore | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Dunmore | HD
's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë
, the stories of D. H. Lawrence
and F. Scott Fitzgerald
, and a study of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | MD
formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats
. Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago. x |
| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton. 64, 85 |
| Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | Again the title names an imaginary place: it is the phrase which Keats
applies to the territory of poetry in Upon First Looking into Chapman's Homer. It also suggests the heroine's work as an... |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
| Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
| Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
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