Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Critic Claire Harman
considers this poem a little masterpiece, hard to categorise and unaccountably neglected. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xix |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The novel's publication went largely unnoticed, owing to the political events leading up to World War Two. Claire Harman
admires STW
's imaginative integrity in managing to write a detached, politically objective novel during a... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Reviewers noted that the letters form an account of an essentially peaceful, domestic, literary life in the country, which comes alive through STW
's perceptive, witty, compassionate, and sometimes tart observation. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 60: 412 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Anthony Burgess
praised AC
for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching. Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne, 1997. 23 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Louis Untermeyer
, an early supporter of STW
's poetry, commented favourably on her marked accent,half-modern, half-archaic blend of naivete and erudition, and the low-pitched but tart tone of voice. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xv |
Publishing | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Sylvia Townsend Warner
: Collected Poems was edited and published posthumously by Claire Harman
. It includes previously unpublished and uncollected poems. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xi TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 2489 (14 October 1949): 669 |
Publishing | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Sylvia Townsend Warner
: Selected Poems, a collection of her poetry written over a span of over fifty years, was edited and published posthumously by Claire Harman
. Harman, Claire, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. “Afterword”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press, 1985, p. 95. 95 |
Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes is still in print, and, according to Claire Harman
was still STW
's best-known work at the latter part of the twentieth century. Alison Lurie
wrote the introduction for an edition in the... |
Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | This volume, according to biographer Claire Harman
, seems stranger than fiction, and rather funnier. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 248 |
Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in June 1977 the Aldeburgh Festival honoured her with a special programme of her work. As if to reinforce the parallel sometimes... |
Reception | Valentine Ackland | Though VA
's poems were well received when they first began to appear, she was always a poet out of step with her time: more in tune, as Claire Harman
remarks, with writers of the... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | Most major shifts in second-wave feminist literary criticism have been marked by influential rereadings of Jane Eyre: Ellen Moers
(1976) and Elaine Showalter
(1977) in the assertion of a female literary tradition; the Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective |
Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | This lengthy poem, written in couplets, was modelled on the works of George Crabbe
. It was in a form mid-way between the short story and satirical verse. According to Claire Harman
, the poem... |
Textual Features | Valentine Ackland | Warner and Ackland point out in a Note to the Reader, which is a kind of manifesto, that the text is not a collaboration, but rather a joint collection of their poetry. They explain... |
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