Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Butts | Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake
and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press. 5 |
Textual Production | Penelope Lively | Once more the titles provoke curiosity. They include Venice, Now and Then, Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be (opening line of a poem by Robert Browning
), Yellow... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
's Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and its Costs (in the Chatto Counterblasts Series) lambasted the British government for failing to provide an adequate standard of living for children. The... |
Textual Production | Eva Figes | EF
explicitly addressed to grandparents her Tales of Innocence and Experience. An Exploration, which is both a memoir and a collection of revisions of fairy-tales. By its allusion to Blake
, the title evokes... |
Textual Production | Margaret Gatty | Juliana Ewing
called MG
's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume. Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. xvi The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 1677 (1859): 812 To most readers today the... |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | For Mary King Patterson
of the New York Daily News (a personal friend), MBL
wrote It Is Happening Now, about England at war (an imaginary war, since the story was complete some months before... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats
and Blake
fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research. 20: 291 |
Textual Production | Mary Butts | This account of her life from childhood to the age of twenty takes its title from a poem by William Blake
. The poem's speaker is caught by a Maiden while dancing in the wild... |
Textual Production | Edna Lyall | Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett
. Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood. 21 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Jennifer Johnston | JJ
published another novel through Sinclair-Stevenson
, The Invisible Worm, which is titled from Blake
's poem The Sick Rose. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton
, with quotations from Edwin Muir
and William Blake
. Dated by the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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 Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
published William Blake, the first of her many critical studies of Blake
. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 559 Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research. 20: 288 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2565 (30 March 1951): 202 |