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Mary, the mother of Jesus
Standard Name: Mary,, the mother of Jesus
Used Form: Virgin Mary
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Kate O'Brien | The title comes from a Mayday hymn to Mary
: the allusion to prayer is both nostalgic and ironical. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | Despite the title, these poems do not present new themes, images, or structures. The most effective among them return to a theme always close to her heart: maternity. She celebrates female strength in two poems,... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Byron | On 2 August 1987 CB
began her journey to St Patrick's Purgatory, retracing the steps Heaney took as he wrote his Station Island sequence (which appeared in a volume of his poems by the same... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
allowed her fervent Catholicism to shine through in her depictions of conventual life and in her discussions of the Virgin Mary
: Mary, Mother of God, is the ideal set before all Catholic women... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Lucy Herbert | Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us. Herbert, Lady Lucy. Several Methods and Practises of Devotion. The Widow of Jonh [sic] de Cock. 1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | She dedicated to British Ladies interested in the bible these scholarly essays or notes. In a spirit of cultural enquiry she explains the use of camels as transport. In Jephthah's Daughter she argues confidently for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few. Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane. ix |
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