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Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | The collection's epigraph, open me carefully, which the publishers say was written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson
to Susan Huntington Gilbert
, June 1852, emphasizes the influence of Dickinson on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | Then after some appendices (further traces of the world of scholarship) and a poem by Emily Dickinson
, Carson begins her radical modern adaptation and expansion of Geryon's story. He is now a little boy... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | As an avid reader, HO
often cites other women writers—as well as men—as influential on her writing. She frequently cites and mentions both Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women and Emily Dickinson
, of whom... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Shields | Following an epigraph from Emily Dickinson
, Tell all the truth but tell it slant,CS
here experiments with melodrama, coincidence, and other infringements on naturalism. Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | First published in 1971 (Rich's collections often include writings issued previously), the essay When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision is described in 1988 by Elizabeth Meese
as still inform[ing] much of the best work... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho
, Christina Rossetti
, Emily Dickinson
—not Elizabeth Barrett Browning
—and to the more recent Edith Sitwell
and Marianne Moore
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan. 218 and n |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Though the reviews were universally laudatory in their general tone, GE
found them disheartening. Edith J. Simcox
, reviewing the book as H. Lawrenny for the Academy in the month following publication, asserted Middlemarch marks... |
Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | Reviewers were respectful, even enthusiastic. PS
was likened to poets as various as Eavan Boland
and Emily Dickinson
, and praised for energy, for vigorous and various abundance,and for attention to the erogenous zones... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Plath | In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez
(who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time .... |
Literary responses | Wendy Cope | Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint... |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Literary responses | Jennifer Johnston | This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein
in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we... |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 17 |
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