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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | |
Fictionalization | Sappho | In the twentieth century Sappho
continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison
fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland
takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson |
Friends, Associates | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | |
Friends, Associates | Kate O'Brien | One of those who stayed with KOB
in Galway was the Italian novelist Ignazio Silone
. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | Lorna Reynolds
and Eavan Boland
liken this novel to the work of John Galsworthy
, as it is the saga of several generations of an Irish family building a business and growing in wealth. Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv. xi |
Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | Eavan Boland
calls this novel plangent and polemical. Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv. xi |
Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | The poet Anne Stevenson
, whose review offered these summaries of Shuttle's imagery, marvelled at the vulnerability of a dead-serious poetic voice(without the defences of aggression, wit, irony, mockery or word-play) Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65. 65 |
Literary responses | Carol Ann Duffy | This book garnered the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and another Scottish Arts Council
Book Award. Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994. prelims “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994. 152 |
Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | Reviewers were respectful, even enthusiastic. PS
was likened to poets as various as Eavan Boland
and Emily Dickinson
, and praised for energy, for vigorous and various abundance,and for attention to the erogenous zones... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | The New Yorker was grudging “Books Briefly Noted. Anna of All the Russias”. The New Yorker. Feinstein, Elaine. The Elaine Feinstein Page. |
Publishing | Kate O'Brien | She finished writing it in September 1942, with the war at its height, deep in the English countryside at Croyle House near Cullompton in Devon. A stage adaptation by KOB
and John Perry
opened... |
Reception | Kate O'Brien | Eavan Boland
reckons this book, together with Mary Lavelle, The Last of Summer, and The Land of Spices, as KOB
's finest novels. Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv. x-xi |
Textual Features | Ruth Padel | RP
takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,... |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF
named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg
and Anne Carson
), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle
and Sarah Maguire
, followed by... |