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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
... |
| Textual Production | Edith Templeton | ET
published The Island of Desire, her third novel, with a challenging epigraph from Baudelaire
's Un voyage à Cythère in which the speaker confronts himself hanging from a gibbet. Templeton, Edith, and Anita Brookner. The Island of Desire. Hogarth Press, http://U of A HSS. title-page |
| Textual Features | Iris Tree | The poems reflect key preoccupations of their time and of IT
's literary circle. They are shaped by admiration for the traditions and themes of later nineteenth-century French poetry, the Symbolists, and such English poets... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall
's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press
of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury
's Shakespeare, 1934. 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. |
| Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Of the Earth, Earthy is one of RMW
's many works dedicated to city life. Hughes
suggests that Amy Levy
(particularly through A London Plane-Tree) and Charles Baudelaire
influenced this poem. Hughes, Linda K. “Feminizing Decadence: Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’”. Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer et al., University Press of Virginia, pp. 119-38. 121 |
| Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Her own previously published poems (Arsinoë's Cats and To My Cat) shared the volume with the work of other poets including Baudelaire
, Edmund Gosse
, and Théophile Gautier
. Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55. 142-3 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale
in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW
's different pseudonyms. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Author summary | Oscar Wilde | OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose... |
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