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Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB
's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Clifford | Though LAC
was at enmity with her first husband's brother Edward Sackville
(because her husband left all his assets to her while his brother received little but the title), she enjoyed a friendship with his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert
(who is Dear George although... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey
), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber
:The Funny Side: 101... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also... |
Residence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Leighton Bromswold has been at some dates assigned to Huntingdonshire. Eighty years after this, George Herbert
was to become prebendary there. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Herbert |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
says her fiction and poetry come from different parts of herself: the voice, the cadences, the rhythms are very different. She sees fiction as involving impersonation of other people. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press. 180 |
Author summary | Mary Ferrar | MF
, hardly a writer herself; was the matriarch of a seventeenth-century family which lived like a religious community, and which seems to have composed dialogues and short moral histories collaboratively, as well as letters... |
Literary responses | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Textual Features | Frances Horovitz | Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson
, who died in 1981. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Winifred Nicholson |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |