| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | DM
writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Whitney | Men, she says, should never be trusted without testing first; they have learned deception from Ovid
. She likens them, with telling gender-reversal, to mermaids luring sailors to their doom, and again she provides a... |
| Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press
in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
wrote a verse epistle, Ovid
to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave
(later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 289-90 |
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published The Leto Bundle, a transhistorical novel in which she uses the Ovid
ian concept of metamorphosis to examine the realities of twentieth-century diaspora. Marina Warner: Novelist and Mythographer. http://www.marinawarner.com. |
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | The basis of the book is Ovid
's story of Leto and the birth of her twins, an event which Warner had retold in a short story published the previous year. Marina Warner: Novelist and Mythographer. http://www.marinawarner.com. |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
's well-known The Disappointment, about a pastoral episode of male impotence, is freely translated from a French original which is itself adapted from a passage in Ovid
's Art of Love. It... |
| Textual Production | A. E. Housman | Without an academic position, AEH
made himself in his spare time the leading classical textual editor of his generation. The edition of Propertius
which he worked at from his student days onwards was never published... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
's Commonplace Book includes prose notes on religious topics, and long passages of poetry, most of it by other people, and much of it translated. She translated some of Ovid
's amorous Heroides herself... |
| Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | ASB
continued her interest in Ovid
with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry
in early 2000. Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 131-57. 131 |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | |
| 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. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 34, 40 Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 842n116 |
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