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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory
, and six unpublished poems. A... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Kate Summerscale
writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
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. xv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | LR
has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound
still believed that the movement... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Noel Streatfeild | NS
opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. 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. |
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