Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | This celebration of postwar modernity has as epigraph Dryden
's welcome to a new century: 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 497 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Dryden
. The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | This poem suggests that women are culpably hungry for flattery (as the poet's husband felt she often was); she declares herself willing to bear sole responsibility for her sexual reputation: it will be her own... |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Miller | Along with works of art she describes, but more briefly, the way of life of places she passes through. She has, however, little sympathy with working people's needs. She remarks that actresses and dancers have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | The title-page quotes from Dryden
. The story opens in 1800 with Mr Hamilton left guardian to Lenmore, the son of his dead correspondent in Jamaica. Early scenes are set among a group of... |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, wrote a poem in praise of Dryden
's translation of Virgil
, which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with... |
Friends, Associates | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden
, Mary Astell
(Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas
, and other women who are... |
Literary responses | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Dryden
showed his copy of the poem to |
Textual Features | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child
, in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | On the death of John Dryden
, DM
edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xii-xiii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Dryden
's Virgil
translation supplies an epigraph for the title-page. An authorial Advertisement, apologetic in tone, says the book will be realistic, moral, and well-intentioned. Louisa Jenkins writes the first letter while staying with her... |
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