Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, pp. 19 -24.
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death | W. B. Yeats | He was buried there two days later, having resisted the known wish of the Irish people that he should have a state funeral. Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, pp. 19 -24. 24 |
Education | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
loved the village school in Great Village, Nova Scotia, where she learned to read and write. She later, supported by a Bishop family trust, attended first a summer camp, then a private school... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Arendt | After less than a month as a widow, HA
received a proposal of marriage from W. H. Auden
, who was a friend but not a particularly close one. He suggested that they were both... |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | Introduced to Aldous Huxley
and his wife Maria
by the South African poet Roy Campbell
while at Sanary, the young SB
became their intimate friend. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 249-50 |
Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During her first visit to the USA, ES
met Charlie Chaplin
, Greta Garbo
, and Marianne Moore
. A press party at the Gotham Book Mart
in New York was attended by ES
... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's adult friends included artists and writers such as Gertrude Hermes
, Storm Jameson
, Goldie Lowes Dickinson
, Julian Trevelyan
, Gerald Heard
, and Rudi Messel
. Among the close friends were... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Hill | While studying at King's CollegeSH
, an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
and her writer husband C. P. Snow
for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | This indicates how the second world war turned her thoughts back towards the first. She noted the feeling of being on a small island of sand, cut off from past and future, and how wireless... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jennings | As a teenager, EJ
read T. S. Eliot
and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | Duffy answers back not just to male historical figures but (as a reviewer pointed out) to the male poets who have re-imagined such figures, like Auden
in The Fall of Icarus. Elsewhere she remarks... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |