Walt Whitman

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...

When she moved to London, STW was committed to a career as a musicologist. She studied music composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams and composed a Requiem for string quartet and voice (to words from...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

It was likely Edward Carpenter who introduced IOF to the work of Walt Whitman . She and her sisters began a correspondence with Whitman which lasted until his death in 1891.

Early in her writing career, IOF was influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman . Her experiences as a labour organizer also stimulated and encouraged her writing: she become even more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

KBG was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman , Edward Carpenter , and Plato .

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...

The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris and Walt Whitman , while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter .

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. From the first poem, about coming...

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. She uses for an epigraph the remark...

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...