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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | The title-page quotes James Beattie
and Shakespeare
. For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow
addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars
. FID
's preface declares her intention of reporting the... |
Performance of text | Carol Ann Duffy | On the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death, seven typically touching and witty poems by CAD
on Shakespeare
the man were performed as Shakespeare Masque, in a musical setting by Sally Beamish
, in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carol Ann Duffy | Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer
and Shakespeare
, stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | In a volume of poetic responses to Shakespeare
, marking four hundred years since his death, CAD
offered a thoughtful, downbeat response to the well-loved sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother. Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago, 1983. xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland
, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath
's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore
and Shakespeare
, and a review... |
Education | Emily Eden | She was educated at home by her mother, a tutor, and governesses. Under her mother's instruction, she read Boswell's Life of Johnson, the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Shakespeare
, and knew a... |
Leisure and Society | Amelia B. Edwards | She was a regular member of the audience at Shakespeare
performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre
. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp. 131 |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | T. S. Eliot | His introduction defines the critic's business as to see literature steadily and to see it whole. This, he argues, involves preserving tradition Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen; Barnes and Noble, 1960. xv |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Stickney Ellis | In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life... |
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