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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Fleur Adcock | From early in her career FA
was an insightful critic as well as a poet, and her judgements were already informed by a matured understanding of the shaping force of gender. Dannie Abse
included her... |
Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | JS
was, with Helen Dunmore
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, and Elizabeth Jennings
, one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Stevenson | In Oxford AS
met a number of other poets: John Wain
, Anne Ridler
, Elizabeth Jennings
, Anne Born
, Andrew Motion
, Craig Raine
, Peter Levi
, and Anne Pennington
, who died a few years later. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984. 9: 284 |
Friends, Associates | Kathleen Raine | In later years, KR
had a circle of friends at Cambridge which included C. S. Lewis
, Edwin Muir
and his wife Willa
, Elizabeth Jennings
, Owen Barfield
, A. C. Harwood
, Tom Henn |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | CR
was mourned in a sonnet by Michael Field
shortly after her death. Her influence extended to many other poets of her own time or close to it, including Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Rosamund Marriott Watson |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | This was praised by British Book News, which rejoiced to find ES
's astonishing verbal dexterity employed in her later work upon themes of ever-increasing profundity . . . . She is a poet... |
Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | Elizabeth Jennings
praised CAD
's dexterity with language, that glorious juggling which poets sometimes achieve with a sense of surprise even to themselves. Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994. 152 |
Literary responses | Willa Muir | WM
characterised this book as very like a Scotch bun . . . because it has a bit of everything in it, not classified into layers like a respectable English cake. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
Textual Features | Alice Meynell | AM
's subtle, meditative, poetic style shares characteristics with other religious women writers, looking back to Christina Rossetti
and forward to Elizabeth Jennings
. She disliked praise of her writing as feminine, preferring this... |
Textual Features | Ruth Padel | RP
takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,... |
Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46 - 8. 48 |
Textual Production | Gillian Clarke | GC
has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed... |