Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people), Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 112 |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
Textual Production | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's diaries and letters detailing her relationship with Dylan Thomas
are held by SUNY
at Buffalo, New York. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press. 390 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
sent a letter of congratulation when the young poet Dylan Thomas
had a poem published (as she had recently had herself) in the Sunday Referee; their correspondence became frequent and personal before they... |
Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The paper had decided to offer this annual prize for the best of the pieces printed in its Poet's Corner column (brainchild of Victor Neuburg
). The prize was the publication by subsidy of the... |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The citation for the prize called her one of the most exquisite word artists of our day. Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 2, pp. 29-30. 29 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 115 |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ
later associated with Kingsley Amis
's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its... |
Textual Features | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novel traces the careers of a number of characters including the central figures of three writers, a woman and two men. For all of them those politically fraught years were their formative period. Kit... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Ann Hatton | In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH
's novels in the British Library
. In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they... |
Leisure and Society | William Empson | Empson was a heavy social drinker all his life (at one time a drinking companion of Dylan Thomas
). Haffenden remarks that in China he gained well-deserved status in the Chinese classical tradition of venerably... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
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