Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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Ovid
Standard Name: Ovid
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Melesina Trench | After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
, aged thirty, apparently arranged the anonymous printing of her first collection, Poems on Several Occasions, through John Clarke
, with a quotation from Ovid
on the title-page. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 842n116 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe
printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace
which... |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | At her husband's prompting, MS
composed in 1818, the year of Frankenstein, a translation of Mirra, a drama by the Italian Romantic playwright Vittorio Alfieri
, whose subject-matter (from Ovid
's Metamorphoses) is father-daughter incest. Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 385-11. 388 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid
and imitated by Chaucer
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and others, and popularly called Go, little book... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon
. GHS
quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid
through Milton
and Wordsworth |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sappho | Interest in her sexuality was disseminated in Europe by Ovid
in his Heroides (or Heroines), a collection from the first century AD of fictional epistles, mostly from women (all of them except Sappho mythological)... |
| Textual Features | Carol Rumens | Its tributes to earlier women poets are grounded in Portrait of the Poet as a Little Girl (a belated, oblique answer to James Joyce
), which concludes on the patrilineal prize / which she, disarmed... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | MR
's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith
to her Elegiac Sonnets. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 45 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | Again this book inhabits the borders between living and dead, dream and waking; many short poems create self-contained moments in the progress of some quest or pilgrimage. The rather longer Tomis, December, speaks... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ezra Pound | Pound weaves classical mythology and legend into the first set of cantos, with allusions to Odysseus, Dionysus, and Ovid
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. 6 |
| Textual Production | Alexander Pope | His early translation Sapho
to Phaon—which, like Ovid
's original, represents the woman poet as despairingly in love with a man who has rejected her—appeared in print in 1712 in the eighth edition of... |
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