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Erica Jong
Standard Name: Jong, Erica
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Sylvia Plath | Other recipients of this award include Denise Levertov
(1960), Adrienne Rich
(1963), Erica Jong
(1971), and Margaret Atwood
(1974). |
| Literary responses | Diana Athill | This book became an English best-seller and was soon translated into eight other languages. It won the Costa (formerly the Orange) award for biography and made its author, at the venerable age of 91, an... |
| Literary responses | Adrienne Rich | The volume was criticised more generally for its consistently negative images of men and masculinity. Helen Vendler
found in the poems a deliberate refusal of the modulations of intelligence in favor of . .... |
| Literary responses | Anne Sexton | This book brought an avalanche of invitations to read her work. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 385 Sexton, Anne. A Self-Portrait in Letters. Editors Sexton, Linda Gray and Lois Ames, Houghton Mifflin. 403 |
| Literary responses | Anne Sexton | AS
accepted the label confessional poet, although many commentators made that a basis from which to denigrate her work. Erica Jong
argued that this label downplays the element of achieved skill, wrongly suggesting that... |
| Fictionalization | Sappho | In the twentieth century Sappho
continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison
fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland
takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson |
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