Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage, 1997.
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Education | Ali Smith | After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
wrote her first poems at play, while she bounced tennis balls against the garage door. When she showed one to a teacher and it appeared in the school magazine, she became hooked for life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | AR
writes here on June Jordan
, Audre Lorde
, Muriel Rukeyser
, and Wallace Stevens
, among others. She reiterates her passionate belief in the links between poetic, personal, and social consciousness and activity:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
Literary responses | Wendy Cope | Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint... |
Reception | Marianne Moore | Sending a copy of this book to Wallace Stevens
the following year, MM
said she had lacked confidence to send it sooner. Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf, 1997. 389 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | AS
retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 173 qtd. in Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 170-1 |
Textual Production | Marianne Moore | In the early 1920s MM
was already an influential New York reviewer, who covered such landmark texts as T. S. Eliot
's The Sacred Wood, 1921, Bryher
's first novel, Development, also in... |
Textual Production | Marianne Moore | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Stevenson | Here ASargues that change is time's one permanent condition, that it continually transforms the present into the past at the very moment it opens the future to further change. Quoting from her own The... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Seamus Heaney | In these lectures SH
again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at... |
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