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Textual Production | William Empson | WE
published his most controversial work, Milton
's God, in which he argues that the Christian God, as portrayed in orthodox manner, though with exceptional imaginative power, in Paradise Lost, is cruel and morally evil. |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
wrote a few poems during her childhood: she began writing poetry again in about 1924. Her note on Satan Speaks, a pastiche of Milton
, says it was written in 1925, though unpublished... |
Textual Production | Priscilla Wakefield | She dedicated this work to her two grandsons, and quoted Milton
on its title-page. Wakefield, Priscilla. Instinct Displayed. Darton and Harvey. title-page |
Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Her own essay here is Obscure and Giddy Sects: Milton
and the Scandal of Divorce. |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | AH
published another novel, Eyeless in Gaza, titled with a quotation in which the hero of Milton
's Samson Agonistes laments his enslaved condition. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 357 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 278 Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 245 |
Textual Production | Hélène Gingold | This bore both her birth and married names (Mrs. Laurence Cowen) and sold for one shilling, dedicated to the Members of the London Stock Exchange
. In an introduction she mentions the libel... |
Textual Production | Anne Manning | AM
's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton
's first wife, it remains her best-known work. 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. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | MD
wrote for Handel
a libretto adapted from Milton
's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced. 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. Delany, Mary. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. Editor Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, R. Bentley. II: 280 |
Textual Production | Janet Hamilton | Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan
pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence... |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
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 | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | EF
's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband... |
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