Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. vii - xvii.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
Education | Sylvia Townsend Warner | When she moved to London, STW
was committed to a career as a musicologist. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. vii - xvii. xi |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Joaquin Miller
, James Russell Lowell
, and Walt Whitman
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 183 |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | It was likely Edward Carpenter who introduced IOF
to the work of Walt Whitman
. She and her sisters began a correspondence with Whitman Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 24 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | It was a three-part collection. The first section, titled The World, contains nature poems; the second, Woman, addresses CPG
's feminist agenda, and the third, Our Human Kind, is distinctly political in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman
, Edward Carpenter
, and Plato
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 69 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | She began practising literary techniques in letters written to friends and family at this time. Evidence of a dialogic, corresponding voice permeates her poetry, resulting in what Archibald MacLeish
reads as one of the central... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society, 1895. title page, 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Jamie | The sequence entitled Karakoram Highway (second of the book's three sections), with an epigraph from Walt Whitman
, distils moments from KJ
's travels in Northern Pakistan. Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books, 2002. 53 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Deborah Levy | Again DL
produces a fractured plot, mirroring a sense of fractured identity in a fractured world where the classic rules of form and structure no longer fit. “Deborah Levy”. British Council Literature. Levy |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
wrote her first poem, The Visit, while she was studying at the Glasgow School of Art
in the mid-1960s. She included it in her first collection, Memo For Spring. By 1970 she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Ormston Ford | Early in her writing career, IOF
was influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter
and Walt Whitman
. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 23-24 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | The novel's title alludes to the biblical pronouncement that the wages of sin is death (a title which begs to be read ironically, since punishment catches up with each of LM
's sinners after acts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | On a more abstract level the novel is an investigation into the workings of liberty, imagination, friendship, passion, the influence of nature on human life, male-female relations, and the imperfections of current social arrangements (under... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of... |