Helen Gardner
Standard Name: Gardner, Helen
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | By the date of her retirement BP
had suffered a decade of rejection of her writing. She now sought other activities, like joining the Finstock Local History Society
. She was also a preliminary judge... |
Reception | D. H. Lawrence | Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity... |
Timeline
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.