Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Standard Name: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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, whose desire to publish his poetry was frustrated in his Victorian lifetime by his Jesuit
superiors, was first published in 1918 by his trusted friend and informal archivist Robert Bridges
. During the twentieth century his difficult work became canonical and revered. His journals and letters have also recently received high praise.
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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
At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
.
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went on to receive an MA in English literature from University College
, Cork. She says that her generation was brought up on poets like Donne
and Hopkins
.
McDonald, Roxanne. “Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, Salem Press.
Bryce, Colette. “Making a Poem: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, p. 22.
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Education
Ruth Padel
She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short...
Education
Michèle Roberts
She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course...