Naidu, Sarojini et al. “The Golden Threshold, 1905”. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, PA.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | SN
's first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold, was published by William Heinemann
in London, with an introduction by Arthur Symons
. The British Library copy was stamped on this date. Naidu, Sarojini et al. “The Golden Threshold, 1905”. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, PA. prelims |
Author summary | Sarojini Naidu | Sarojini Naidu
was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century. The British Library catalogue spells her name Sarojini Nayadu
. |
Friends, Associates | Sarojini Naidu | SN
met a number of notable English literary figures at Miss Manning's accommodations, and particularly Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, both of whom helped her to launch her literary career. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of... |
Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | |
Publishing | Sarojini Naidu | |
Friends, Associates | Walter Pater | From his time at BrasenoseWP
knew Oscar Browning
. In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse
, Algernon Charles Swinburne
, Simeon Solomon
, Oscar Wilde
, Vernon Lee
, A. Mary F. Robinson |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Alice Meynell
in a posthumous review of Rossetti's work in the New Review in 1895 argued for the artistic perfection of poems like The Three Enemies and Uphill, Advent, which exhibit a strong and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
Textual Features | Iris Tree | The poems reflect key preoccupations of their time and of IT
's literary circle. They are shaped by admiration for the traditions and themes of later nineteenth-century French poetry, the Symbolists, and such English poets... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 51-71. 61 |
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