Nancy Cunard
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Standard Name: Cunard, Nancy
Birth Name: Nancy Cunard
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was an early twentieth-century modernist poet, journalist, anthologist, biographer, and political activist whose life and literary career were closely intertwined. She was significant as a publisher as well as in these other roles.
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Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | The former volume comprises French poems with English translations by practising English poets whom Mackworth felt to have an affinity with the poets translated. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 45 and n |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Nott | The Hand and Flower Press
, run by Marx from 1940 until 1966, began with limited editions of books by admired authors, and moved on to works, especially poetry, by largely unpublished writers, including... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
remained editor of this weekly for the next twenty years. Her efforts were part of her strong commitment to fighting totalitarianism wherever and whenever it appeared. This periodical reached forty thousand readers and was... |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | AH
's novel Point Counter Point appeared, featuring identifiable portraits of D. H. Lawrence
as Rampion, John Middleton Murry
as Burlap, and Nancy Cunard
as Lucy Tantamount. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 357 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 278 Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 147 |
Textual Production | Carol Rumens | Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and... |
Textual Production | W. H. Auden | An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender
in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press. 4 |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain
, Edith Sitwell
, Nancy Cunard
, Cicely Hamilton
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations... |
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