John Donne

As a young adult CC took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to...

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

Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...

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.

She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy . Christianity was everywhere in the syllabus and...

On the first page the protagonist in this very confusing story signs in to a hotel called the Black Swan under the name of Nelly Dean. She asks for a double room, saying she expects...

The court decided in favour of the children, and Anne subsequently moved to London where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Bridget, Lady Kingsmill, for most of her childhood. Lady Kingsmill had been a friend...

These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

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 .

PDJ returned to detective novels with The Skull beneath the Skin, bringing back her female detective Cordelia Gray after a nine-year absence.

At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne , Gerard Manley Hopkins , and Robert Graves .

She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. The title (quoted from John Donne , which misleadingly suggests fulfilled sexual passion) was the...