John Donne

KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...

The novel's epigraph is the especially popular passage from John Donne 's Meditation 17 which begins No man is an Island. The epigraph illustrates the novel's critique of extreme individualism and selfishness embodied by Hetty.

These poems reflect gender power struggles: whether writing about motherhood, or the end of a marriage, or travelling by train to a Women's Liberation conference (another display / of all the frayed edges)...

The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

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

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

WT keeps in close touch with family members through her letters, expressing her sense of involvement through her anxiety for Jesuit brothers travelling invisibly around England, or her concern for the different problems of a...

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...

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...

The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice (née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis , may have enabled Anne to meet...

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...

Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe and Ben Jonson , and a letter from John Donne , make casual charges connecting...

After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls , NS received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen . Her studies in English laid...

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...