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under Bryan Waller Procter
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Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | One of ESVM
's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie
. Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley
and Keats
and... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham
and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold
, resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Walter Benjamin
, Homer
, Keats
). The first... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN
advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | 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
. Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago. x |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park
, Joseph Cooper Walker
, and Joseph Martin
, assured Robert Anderson
of their admiration. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 and n28 |
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