Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Willa Muir | |
politics | Willa Muir | WM
and her husband
hosted a Writers' Circle in their flat in Prague. The members of the Circle were young Czech writers, and discussions were often as much about Czech politics as about work-in-progress... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Margiad Evans | Edwin Muir
had called Thomas Griffiths and Parson Cope at its first appearance a little masterpiece of wit, poetry and fantasy. Evans, Margiad. The Old and the Young. Seren. 194 |
Literary responses | Henry Handel Richardson | The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author. Child, Harold H. “Ultima Thule”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1407, p. 42. 42 |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | |
Literary responses | Storm Jameson | SJ
tended to disparage this series; she called Love in Winter unworked: the materials for a novel rather than a novel. Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 140 |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir
. There was much debate over the real-life... |
Literary responses | Willa Muir | Perhaps because WM
's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband
, and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | Her epigraph comes from The Ugly Duchess by the German writer Lion Feuchtwanger
: Sleep in Peace, father! I will be different from you.The Ugly Duchess: a historical romance, set in the fourteenth-century... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka
's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa
and Edwin Muir |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | The title poem comes last. Many of the pieces here, like the volume overall, are dedicated to individuals. They include dialogues between the present and the past or future, between personal life and the enormities... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Muir | After attending the theatre regularly in Prague in 1921-2, WM
began planning a play on a biblical theme, to dramatize in modern terms the situation in which Noah and his family found themselves once the... |
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