Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Following Amy Lowell
's suggestion, Bryher
read and was profoundly impressed by H. D.
's poetry collection Sea Garden, 1916. In July, Bryher wrote H. D. an appreciative letter that prompted their first meeting. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963. 187-8 Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987. 35 |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | A letter from Bryher
to Amy Lowell
began a transatlantic correspondence between the two writers; this dialogue was sparked by Bryher's admiration for Imagist poems composed and collected by Lowell. Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987. 35 and n8, 251 |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | H. D.
and her husband, Richard Aldington
, were introduced to D. H.
and Frieda Lawrence
at a dinner party and poetry reading hosted by Amy Lowell
. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 92 |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Elizabeth Moody
engagingly converts Sappho
into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798. Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry, 1996. 98 |
Leisure and Society | Bryher | Publishing between 1914 and 1920, Bryher wrote through a range of names, from Annie Winifred Ellerman
, through A. W. Ellerman, Winifred Bryher, and W. Bryher, to, finally, Bryher. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS. 179 |
Literary responses | Mina Loy | ML
's free verse and sexual explicitness caused a sensation in New York. In his 1925 autobiography, Alfred Kreymborg
remembered that [d]etractors shuddered at Mina Loy's subject-matter and derided her elimination of punctuation marks... |
Publishing | Dora Marsden | Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West
acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle |
Reception | Bryher | Bryher remained especially satisfied with her Review notice on Amy Lowell
's Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917), which, she writes, was incoherent with enthusiasm . . . but I am still inordinately proud that... |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at... |
Textual Features | Bryher | As Amy Lowell
notes in her preface to Development, Nancy's literary growth is both shaped and evidenced by her engagement with modern French poets and Imagist principles. Of to the latter Lowell writes that... |
Textual Features | Bryher | This collection marked Bryher's entry into modernism. Charting the constantly recurring, specifically Greek images, colours, and other motifs in Bryher's poems, Diana Collecott
links them to H. D.
's poetry, especially The Contest and Hipparchia... |
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 Production | Dora Marsden | Assistant editors were Richard Aldington
and Leonard Compton-Rickett
, and later H. D.
(when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot
(from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews... |
Textual Production | Bryher | As W. Bryher, Bryher
published a 48-page pamphlet, Amy Lowell
: A Critical Appreciation. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes. 104 Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987. 218-9 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |