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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Frances Wright | Walt Whitman
paid tribute to FW
as a woman of the noblest make-up whose orbit was a great deal larger than [those who condemned her]—too large to be tlerated for long by them: a most... |
Publishing | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg |
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... |
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... |
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 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xi |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | This book drew mixed reviews. It was praised for being in the tradition of Whitman and blamed for being almost never poetry. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 390 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
Textual Production | Tillie Olsen | She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking
(to their indignation) and... |
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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman
's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 37n |
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 | 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 |
Travel | Julia Kristeva | JK
travelled to the USA (to New York) for the first time in 1973, harbouring her own American dream founded on an early reading of Walt Whitman
. She had been invited there seven years... |