Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Eavan Boland | EB
was published in Volume 2 of the Penguin Modern Poets series (the second series, which began this year and ran until 1997), together with Carol Ann Duffy
and Vicki Feaver
. The first Penguin... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | RP
dedicated the volume to her partner Michael Black
, but the opening poem and one other are dedicated to Irish poet Matthew Sweeney
. Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe. prelims |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | The strength of EB
's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion
, Seamus Heaney
, James Fenton
, and Eavan Boland
, and during the 1990s... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | 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 |
Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | When Sally Avens
conceived of a series of four radio plays, Women on Love, based on love-poems by women, SD
contributed a piece on Carol Ann Duffy
's Warming Her Pearls (in which a... |