Saint Mary Magdalen

One poem written by HW as an undergraduate and never published in her lifetime relates the events of the crucifixion and its immediate aftermath from the point of view of Mary Magdalen : So Joseph...

In this first volume KT establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...

KT opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few. The...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

Here she associates the figure of Mary Magdalene with the bride of the Song of Songs, countering the dominant Victorian characterization of her as a prostitute by focusing on the loyalty, love, and instinct...

In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve , the Virgin Mary ...

MR 's third novel, The Wild Girl, concerns the biblical Mary Magdalene or Magdalen , whose portrayal as religious and sexually active and unmarried was of course controversial.

This novel reflects both MR 's efforts to remove her own self from her writing, and the freedom and power she felt when she allowed herself, after all, to be present there again. In...

As a child Mary Magdalene climbs trees and sometimes sings pagan songs. At fifteen, after her mother dies, she runs away from home with its prospect of betrothal and marriage, only to be raped on...

This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...

The collection consists of seventeen poems, the longest of which is the offending Madeleine in Church, a 200-line dramatic monologue spoken in confessional mode by a woman kneeling in a dark corner of a...

According to Maitland, she began the process of conversion to Catholicism after three nocturnal visitations from an apparition that appeared to her in the form of St Mary Magdalen . She was confirmed...

The volume opens with the title piece, River Reeds, a simple poem about nature which compares the gifts of the poet to a river reed: however lowly and mean, both offer melodies tender and...

Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams . Even...

This is war poetry which looks at the home front, like T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets and Ezra Pound 's Pisan Cantos. It has been classified as epic.London under the bombing...