qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
188
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Carol Ann Duffy | In the same year CAD
's Poet to Prose-Writer, a version from Pushkin
, stood first of the six pieces by her among the translations, versions of and responses by British, Irish, and American... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | An older half-sister of EW
's father, Hannah Waller Atkinson
, was equally accomplished, having lived for a time in St Petersburg with the pianist at the Imperial Palace. She would eventually translate Pushkin |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Slovo | The first part has an epigraph from Pushkin
about trackless snow; later parts are headed from other Russian writers such as Yevgeni Yevtushenko
and Anna Akhmatova
. Slovo's examination of the intersection of politics with... |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal). qtd. in White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 188 |
Occupation | Anna Akhmatova | Deprived of poetry, no longer working at the Agronomy Institute
library, and banned from the bohemian life, Anna developed an interest in Aleksandr Sergeevych Pushkin's
works and in architecture; she also translated from French, Italian... |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | MB
depicts Byron with her customary vigour and imaginative engagement: her introduction to the poetry volume is a blend of analysis and praise. She places him politically, as having in his veins an ancestral witches'... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | The book includes translations of poems by Anna Akhmatova
, Ivan Krylov
, Mihail Lermontov
, and Alexander Pushkin
. Poems from the Russian. Translators Cornford, Frances and Esther Polianowsky Salaman, Faber and Faber, 1943. 5-6 |
Textual Features | Bernardine Evaristo | An odd couple on holiday from England (Stanley Williams, his Jamaican immigrant parents' my-son-the-banker, and Jessie O'Donnell, a singer, a foundling raised by nuns in Leeds) drive haphazardly across Europe towards the Middle East... |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | The year 1943 saw publication of her Selected Poems in Tashkent, which brought her recognition in Asia. Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976. 131 |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | AA
's name appeared in a number of literary anthologies such as Literaturnaya Moskva (Literary Moscow) and Poetry Day;her poems were published, too, in newspapers and journals. In the mid 1950s she was working... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
published Pushkin, a biography commissioned two years beforehand to precede the bicentenary of his birth (1999). Beer, Patricia. “Two Hares and a Priest”. London Review of Books, 13 May 1999, pp. 27-9. 27 |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
followed her life of Pushkin
the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes
, Seamus Heaney
,... |
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