Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War. The title comes from a passage by John Donne
, where he imagines catastrophic change, such as... |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon
to Coventry Patmore
, she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems... |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell
, A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of... |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 330, 332 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby
, who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne
into Italian. Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg. 16 |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | In her first novel, Imagined Corners, WM
examined the repression and fragmentation of the self through two women who bear the same name but present opposing images of femininity. Her title comes from John Donne |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne
's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding
, the lawyer on circuit. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1976 Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | The new publishing firm of Sinclair-Stevenson
issued SH
's first novel in seventeen years, besides The Woman in Black: it was entitled Air and Angels, after a poem by Donne
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Hill, Susan. Mrs. de Winter. Sinclair-Stevenson. end pages |
Textual Production | P. D. James | |
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 |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton. 64, 85 |
Textual Features | Ephelia | Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley
's famous praise of Philips
the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet. Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney. 73 |