qtd. in
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985.
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | Reviewers continued on a note of faint praise. Anthony Thwaite
, for instance, found in PB
's work an air of appraising experience in small mouthfuls, fastidious, ironical. qtd. in Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985. 26 |
Literary responses | Anita Desai | Salman Rushdie
called this a magnificent book that brilliantly portrayed the world of male friendship in order to demonstrate how this, too, is a part of the process by which women are excluded from power... |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | Martin Dodsworth
in the Guardian reckoned this collection to be unequalled in our contemporary poetry as a testimony to the patience, persistence, and power of the imagination under duress. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3824 (20 June 1975): 697 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council
(after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
Publishing | Penelope Shuttle | PS
's poem The View from the Window (in which the speaker watches the rain and contemplates a forthcoming journey to the frozen north) appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 30 August 1974, together... |
Publishing | Philip Larkin | PL
was only eleven when he first reached print, with a contribution to his school magazine, The Coventrian, which Anthony Thwaite
has called an extraordinarily assured, facetious performance Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | Some of the poems feature observation of landscape from his recent year in California. Anthony Thwaite
commented a few years later that Heaney had deliberately excluded from Wintering Out some poems he had already... |
Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | FA
's first anthology, edited with Anthony Thwaite
, was New Poetry Four, Hutchinson
, 1978. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
had the habit of sending quantities of undifferentiated manuscripts to her Carcanet Press
editor, Michael Schmidt
, for him to sort, select, and arrange for print. Crawford, Robert. “Locked and Barred”. London Review of Books, 24 July 2003, pp. 31-2. 31 |
Textual Production | Philip Larkin | PL
's Collected Poems were posthumously published, edited by Anthony Thwaite
and arranged in chronological order of composition by means of Larkin's carefully dated working notebooks. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 October 1988): 1151 Larkin, Philip. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003, p. xi - xii. xi |