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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Whateley Darwall | But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD
wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Crommelin | The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic]
about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Batten Cristall | The preface expresses admiration for both Burns
and George Dyer
. ABC
stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha
argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake
and Henry Kirke White |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
was said after her death to have published writings in French, but these have not been traced. Some of her manuscripts are in private hands. Burns
's two surviving letters to her are in... |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
, in her late thirties, penned her first work which is known to survive: a poem written in Robert Burns
's copy of his Poems published at Edinburgh. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 229n56 |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
wrote a ten-line poem in praise of Burns
, which is copied at the head of his Glenriddell Manuscript (below the title, before his dated preface). Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing. prelims |
Friends, Associates | Helen Craik | HC
's friends included the writers Maria Riddell
and Robert Burns
(as well as the former's brother-in-law Robert Riddell
). She corresponded with Burns, and praised his work in high terms. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Craik | In this poem HC
celebrates Burns
's native genius, gay, unique, and strong, and contrasts his independence and inborn merit with rank and riches. Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | In this month Burns
wrote to her about correcting and revising her manuscript. Burns, Robert. The Letters of Robert Burns. Editor Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Clarendon Press. 104 |
Reception | Isa Craig | IC
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns
. Some sources give the year of this event wrongly. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “Isa Craig and the Prize Poem on Burns”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 2 , No. 12, pp. 417-20. 417-18 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isa Craig | As befits an entry in a contest of this kind, the poem rings with a celebratory and worshipful tone. It portrays Burns
as a peasant-king and poet-martyr whose verse speaks across borders to the entire... |
Literary responses | Eliza Cook | Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. 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. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 271 |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Residence | Alison Cockburn | As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and... |
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