Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
W. H. Auden
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Standard Name: Auden, W. H.
Used Form: Wystan Hugh Auden
WHA
has been called the outstanding poet of his generation. His prolific output of poetry is endlessly versatile, often deeply personal but usually also carrying political freight, often experimental, combining the classical and the colloquial, the lyric and the deliberately prosaic. He wrote a great deal in collaboration, often for stage or even operatic performance. He was a riveting lecturer and an unsystematic but always stimulating literary critic.
AR
wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable...
Intertextuality and Influence
Monica Furlong
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer noted in Travelling In a host of quotations from old and new sources: from studies in Zen Buddhism
, the Tao te Ching, the Theologica Germanica, and Julian of Norwich
Intertextuality and Influence
Maggie Gee
Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper...
Literary responses
A. E. Housman
The volume was not an instant success, though it was later admired by authors such as E. M. Forster
and W. H. Auden
.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Literary responses
Stella Benson
Naomi Mitichison assured SB
that the young Auden
was fearfully interested in her poems (which Mitchison had been quoting).
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
136
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Literary responses
Adrienne Rich
W. H. Auden
, with genuine admiration but instinctive condescension, praised Rich's poems as neatly and modestly dressed. He found them like good girls who speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but...
Literary responses
Edna St Vincent Millay
Edmund Wilson
disliked this work, apparently because the communist in it is just as ridiculous as the stockbroker, so that no authoritative, authorized, left-wing voice is supplied.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
406
But its success was stunning.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Literary responses
Hannah Arendt
When she sent a copy of this book to Martin Heidegger
, he reacted with pique and anger at being forced to recognise the scope of her intellectual abilities and achievement, which she had always...
Literary responses
Naomi Mitchison
Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves),
Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83.
165-6
and its author as...
Material Conditions of Writing
Adrienne Rich
Her father had planned for her to be a poet; he encouraged her to write something every day and show it to him.
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3.
21
Though at some stages she hated this, she came to believe...
Material Conditions of Writing
Carson McCullers
She had the idea for the title novella when she and editor George Davis
and poet W. H. Auden
were in a bar where other customers included a woman who was tall and strong as...
Material Conditions of Writing
E. J. Scovell
EJS
began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
As an undergraduate at Oxford
she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...