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Fleur Adcock
Standard Name: Adcock, Fleur
Birth Name: Kareen Fleur Adcock
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Campbell
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Crump
Born a New Zealander, but an Englishwoman by adoption, FA
is a later twentieth-century poet. She has also done notable work as a translator, anthologist, and critic, but whereas many poets of her generation have given a major part of their attention to novels or children's writing, she has focussed on her poetry above all else.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Shena Mackay | This small tribute to the enduring power of friendship is one of a series covering topics like childhood, first love, loss, or marriage. Plans must have changed in printing, for the introduction refers to Fleur Adcock |
| Anthologization | Marianne Moore | In later revisions tending towards minimalism, this poem almost disappeared. The original version is the one chosen by Fleur Adcock
for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987. |
| Literary responses | Marianne Moore | Eliot
assessed her in his introduction as the greatest living master of light rhyme, and as one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Marianne Moore | This volume includes many of the animal poems for which Moore is particularly remembered: poems in which her precise observation and startling and at times outlandish vividness of perception are often subordinated to a moral... |
| Textual Features | Marianne Moore | Fleur Adcock
admires MM
on the one hand for her technical innovations, which she reckons to embrace various aspects—the syllabic lines, the idiosyncratically shaped stanzas, the use of appliquéd prose quotations— and on... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marianne Moore | Elizabeth Bishop
, who wrote on MM
on several occasions, mentioned her in a letter of advice to a would-be poet as one of the great poets of our own century, who should be read... |
| Anthologization | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
's book appeared in a limited edition of three hundred copies. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Reception | Ruth Pitter | During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
| Anthologization | E. J. Scovell | This volume came out on wartime austerity paper. Fleur Adcock
drew on it when she chose three poems or excerpts from EJS
for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987. |
| Anthologization | E. J. Scovell | EJS
has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson
's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock
, Philip Larkin
,... |
| Literary responses | E. J. Scovell | Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens
(who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility), Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | The poet Fleur Adcock
, reviewing this book along with Scenes from the Gingerbread House by Carol Rumens
, gave her higher praise to Rumens. She identified Shuttle as a private and an uneven poet... |
| Reception | Ali Smith | Jackie Kay
included Girl Meets Boy in her list of favourite books from 2007. In comparing Smith's version of Iphis and Ianthe with Fleur Adcock
's contribution to Hofmann
and Lasdun
's After Ovid: New... |
| Reception | Dorothy Wordsworth | The poet Fleur Adcock
has named DW
' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council
writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College
in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman
edition and... |
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