John Keats

MD formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats . While she was at...

Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...

HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

BE substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family...

The title (shamelessly re-used by verse anthologists working after EF ) is a quotation from Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale, where the magic windows open on the foam / Of perilous seas, in...

The narrator of this novel is a woman writer whose name is Jane, and who has a fussily loving sister called Ella. Jane is a Londoner, but, ill with neuritis (later described as consumption), she...

She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter and published in later 1976. Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF noted that she...

Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

Through this experience she met the literary biographer Robert Gittings . She built with him a professional partnership to work on interpretations of John Keats and Thomas Hardy , of whom Gittings was writing biographies...

She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats and James Shirley , to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt , and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Percy Bysshe Shelley , and writers in French, German, and Italian.

MH 's biographer Joy Dunicliff credits her with introducing the reading public to both Keats and Gaskell .

EJ attended Oxford High School . It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton , then The...