Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Standard Name: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Used Form: W. S. Blunt
Used Form: Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell
's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father
... |
| Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | In the same year as her Three Plays for Pacifists, LMS
published Selected Poems. Her literary admirer W. S. Blunt
wrote a Preface for the volume. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
made literary friendships with at least two male poets who apparently saw themselves as her mentor if not her Pygmalion. The one who has held his place in literary history was Wilfrid Scawen Blunt |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's first literary activity was dictating a long Dramatic Poem at the age of six. At sixteen, she met the nearly sixty-year-old poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
, who lived near her parents' home and... |
| Reception | Lady Margaret Sackville | Blunt
presented LMS
in terms that were unlikely to cut much ice with the audience she probably most desired. He called her the best . . . of our English poetesses, at least of the... |
| Textual Features | Lady Margaret Sackville | The poems in this volume speak of war, loss, and guilt. Its dedication, to someone gone from the poet, reads: I will not call you when the wind / Calls you lamentingly at night... |
| Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library
and the Bodleian
have most of her publications. She was a Fellow... |
| Violence | Ouida | Ouida
wrote to her friend W. S. Blunt
expressing fear for her life; biographer Jane Jordan
thinks this fear related to problems with her tenancy. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 75-105. 86 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | William Morris | Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
| Anthologization | Viola Meynell | In December 1910, VM
and her siblings Francis
, Olivia
, and Monica
published a poetry anthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare
's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | During the 1970s EJH
began writing plays for television. She contributed a script to the popular series Upstairs Downstairs, which was broadcast in November 1974 and won an award. She also wrote a play... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | According to Wilfrid Blunt
's Secret Diaries, he and AG
consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey
. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 65 McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiv Longford, Elizabeth. “Lady Gregory and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, pp. 85-97. 90-1 |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
published under his own name a sonnet sequence entitled A Woman's Sonnets, originally penned by AG
. Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, pp. 1-12. 2 Pethica, James. “Commentary on ’A Woman’s Sonnets’ by Lady Gregory”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, pp. 114-22. 98 |
Timeline
1875: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt published Sonnets and...
Writing climate item
1875
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
published Sonnets and Songs by Proteus, which includes passionate addresses to several women.
Texts
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. A. A. Knopf, 1922.
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.
Sackville, Lady Margaret, and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Selected Poems. Constable, 1919.