Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
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is known as a writer). RT
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Intertextuality and Influence | Una Marson | Some of these early poems engage with familiar British texts. Her playful To Wed or Not to Wed is based on the most famous speech by Shakespeare
's Hamlet, and is not without a trace... |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Wellesley | Fire, addressed to Yeats
and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare
(Does not our life consist of the four elements?), Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan. 1 |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | The family attends the funeral of Mirabeau
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Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | The hospital poems in this volume present experiences of fear, pain, and alienation, with tirelessly exact observation and tireless compassion. The artist (that is, a typist concerned about the quality of her work) who speaks... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jennifer Johnston | Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Showes | But as in her previous novel, MS
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