Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Textual Features | Mary Stewart | These are highly literary poems. In her preface MS
invokes Keats
. She writes on mythological topics, both Biblical (Eve, Cain, Mary) and classical (Icarus, Persephone). She titles poems with an eye to her predecessors... |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | One poem, Wish in Spring, opposes Keats
's notion that writing poetry comes naturally: STW
points out that it is a difficult activity which takes great care. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xviii |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English... |
Textual Features | Augusta Webster | Like much of AW
's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, as well as earlier poets such as John Keats
. Many poems here, including... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton. 64, 85 |
Reception | Jane Porter | It was then eighteen months since the failure of Switzerland. Mitford's hard-heartedness towards her was juxtaposed with pity for Keats
, whom she believed to be dying as a result of the Quarterly's... |
Reception | Mary Howitt | MH
's biographer Joy Dunicliff
credits her with introducing the reading public to both Keats
and Gaskell
. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 1 |
Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | The volume was published in a limited edition of 680. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran. back matter |
Publishing | Antonia Fraser | She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 62 |
Publishing | Doreen Wallace | DW
's next novel, Creatures of an Hour, which also appeared in 1933 (title adapted from a love-poem by Keats
), was her last before she switched, in 1934, her publisher from Ernest Benn |
Publishing | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
had Adonais, his elegy on the death of Keats
, printed at Pisa. He sent a copy of this edition to John Gisborne
on this date. The poem was printed at London... |
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