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Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
Textual Features | Deborah Levy | The book and one of the chapters are headed with epigraphs, from Marguerite Duras
and Elena Ferrante
. Other writers or artists who are referred or appealed to include Emily Dickinson
, James Baldwin
... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
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 |
Reception | Michelene Wandor | MW
won an international Emmy Award for her television adaptation of William Luce
's play about Emily Dickinson
, The Belle of Amherst, for Thames Television
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers. 90 |
Reception | Julia Ward Howe | Elaine Showalter
's biography, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe, 2016, claimed that Howe possessed the subversive intellect of an Emily Dickinson
, the political and philosophical interests of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Reception | Sappho | Among the earliest of Sappho
's translators into English was Anne Finch
; among recent translators is Mary Barnard
, 1958. Stevie Smith
declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem... |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | Single Ladies was most enthusiastically reviewed by Anne Stevenson
in the Times Literary Supplement. She judged MMG
's talent too original to be spoiled by the praise or misunderstanding of critics: her successes are... |
Author summary | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
, who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored... |
Occupation | Eva Figes | EF
had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood
, Jane Austen
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Frances Burney
, Willa Cather
, Colette
,... |
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 |
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