Crommelin, May, editor. Poets in the Garden. T. Fisher Unwin.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Cooper | She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope
(that time, which has made Chaucer
unintelligible, will one day do the same with... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | The second part of the story gives excerpts of the diary, which makes heard the voice of an earlier Judith Shakespeare, a woman's writing (like that of Margaret Paston
) which also seeks to capture... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | Nicolete Damer in the story is called after the medieval legend of Aucassin and Nicolette just as her closest brother is called Cassy, short for Aucassin. Richard Le Gallienne
had made extensive reference to the... |
Textual Features | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The article is a short biography of John Wycliffe
. CFC
refers to him as a talented theologian and our first great reformer, who contributed (through his translation of the Bible into English, finished in... |
Textual Features | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also... |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer
and Shakespeare
onwards. |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The narrator for most of the story is Alfred Gaveston, son of the actual Piers Gaveston
who is notorious in history as the favourite of Edward II
. (Piers Gaveston in fact had one or... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Christine de Pisan | Christine de Pisan
's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in Richard Pynson
's edition of Chaucer
as The Morall proverbes of Christyne. Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property. University of Chicago Press. 87, 92 |
Author summary | Wendy Cope | WC
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look... |
Timeline
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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