Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 284
Andrew Motion
Standard Name: Motion, Andrew
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's manuscripts survive in the collection at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. The twentieth century saw a burst of publication of her writing in scholarly editions. Ernest de Selincourt
edited her Journals in 1941... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Stevenson | In Oxford AS
met a number of other poets: John Wain
, Anne Ridler
, Elizabeth Jennings
, Anne Born
, Andrew Motion
, Craig Raine
, Peter Levi
, and Anne Pennington
, who died a few years later. |
| Literary responses | Anne Stevenson | Her fellow-poet Andrew Motion
wrote in the Times Literary Supplement about this volume that AS
's method is to confront the harsh realities of life, acknowledge the temptation to evade them, and then discover rewards... |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
| Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | The future poet laureate Andrew Motion
found the book seriously flawed by portentousness and the sentences of excessively wrought luxuriance with which its opening chapters abound. But he saw these as flaws in a text... |
| Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | JS
had already appeared with Helen Dunmore
and Matthew Sweeney
in 1997 in Penguin Modern Poets volume 12. Writing by her was included in three anthologies in the year 2001. Andrew Motion
placed her work... |
| Reception | E. J. Scovell | Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens
(who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility), Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Anthologization | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
has been invited to contribute poems to many anthologies. Early in her career, her work was included in the influential Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison
and Andrew Motion
and published by... |
| Friends, Associates | Philip Larkin | PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 136 |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | The Willow Gables stories reveal, through their zany fantasy, something of Larkin's early unease with women. Many readers have judged that he here shamelessly depicts women as inferior and inadequate approximations to, or deviations from... |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | The volume had just one review: in the Coventry Evening Telegraph. It said that Larkin's recondite imagery is couched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack... |
| Reception | Philip Larkin | Andrew Motion
ascribes the excellent sales of A Girl in Winter to the boom in fiction sales which had occurred during the war and the years immediately following. This does not account for the contrast... |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | Ten years after his first collection appeared, this one at last brought PL
admiration and respect. The Times Literary Supplement called him a poet of quite exceptional importance, and The Times picked the volume as... |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | Maeve Brennan
was responding to one side of this mix when she later wrote that she found this collection angry, iconoclastic, loveless in tone, lacking the warmth and compassion of The Whitsun Weddings. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 63 |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | Andrew Motion
called this, with Love Again (1979), one of the two unqualified successes of his last decade. Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber. 476 |
Timeline
23 September 2005: A commission from The Guardian to established...
Women writers item
23 September 2005
A commission from The Guardian to established poets to write a contemporary nursery rhyme produced mostly little pieces about doom and gloom.
Texts
Rossetti, Christina, and Andrew Motion. Commonplace. Hesperus, 2005.
Motion, Andrew. “Digging Deep”. Guardian Online.
Motion, Andrew. “Overblown apparatus”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4010, p. 108.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Motion, Andrew. “The agony, ecstasy and lots of hot soup”. Guardian Weekly, p. 39.