HG
published the five-act tragedy Abelard
and Heloise.
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HG
was inspired to write this play when she stumbled across the tomb of Héloïse
and Abelard
in the Père Lachaise Cemetery of Paris. She felt compelled to write an interpretation of their story...
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Alexander Pope
AP
published his one-volume Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, including the previously unpublished epistle Eloisa
to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
2: 312
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Constantia Grierson
A long untitled poem in CG
's manuscript album beginning Ah Theodosius could mankind but see expresses the love of Constantia for Theodosius, using a literary veil drawn from the story of lovers of these...
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Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell
published a historical novel entitled Peter Abelard (in which, naturally, Heloise
is also an important figure).
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Helen Waddell
HW
never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury
(who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard
...
Textual Features
Hildegarde of Bingen
Although the first version of the Symphonia, a poetic cycle that praises God, Mary, and certain saints, was completed in 1158, HB continued to add poems to it until her death.
Newman, Barbara. “Poet: ’Where the Living Majesty Utters Mysteries’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, pp. 176-92.
182-3
Written for...
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Sally Purcell
On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things...
Publishing
Héloïse
Nearly five hundred years after they were written, the letters of Héloïse
and Abelard
were published at Paris in Latin.
Letters of Abelard
and Heloise, translated by John Hughes
, was published at London.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
2: 295n6
Publishing
Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
62
Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF
noted that she...
Publishing
Anna Seward
AS
compiled a 7-page booklet, Memoirs of Abelard
and Eloisa, which was issued at Newcastle with other Abelard and Eloisa material.
The British Library Catalogue lists AS
's contribution as part of a larger work.
Seward, Anna et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell.
title-page
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Texts
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. “Editorial Materials”. The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse, translated by. Betty Radice, Penguin, 1974.
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Translator Hughes, John, J. Watts, 1713.
Seward, Anna et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell, 1805.
Abelard, Peter et al. Petri Abaelardi, Sancti Gildasii in Britannia abbatis, et Heloisae coniugis eius, quae postmodum prima coenobii paraclitensis abbatissa fuit, Opera. Editor Du Chesne, André, Nicolai Buon, 1616.