Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Herbert
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | Most of these had been previously issued as part of other religious writings such as The Face of the Deep. Verses sold well, and reviewers enthusiastically compared CR
's achievement to that of George Herbert |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | Among ET
's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical... |
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 | 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 Production | Barbara Pym | The title is quoted from The Pulley by George Herbert
: When God first made man; / Having a glasse of blessings standing by, he poured blessing after blessing out on mankind, but withheld the... |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
's novel No Man's Nightingale (completed in March this year; title from George Herbert
) revealed that Wexford looked no more likely to retire in good earnest than his creator. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Flood, Alison. “Two faces of Britain’s thriller queen”. The Guardian Weekly, p. 39. |
Textual Production | Jo Shapcott | During the same year she and Matthew Sweeney
jointly edited an anthology, Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times, which draws on worldwide modern writing in English. In 2002 she edited the anthology Discourses... |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | EJW
also wrote novels which respond in similar manner to Charlotte Yonge
's Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife and Elizabeth Sewell
's Amy Herbert. In each of these (titled respectively Hearts-ease in the Family... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.