Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few. Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane. ix |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | Despite the title, these poems do not present new themes, images, or structures. The most effective among them return to a theme always close to her heart: maternity. She celebrates female strength in two poems,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
allowed her fervent Catholicism to shine through in her depictions of conventual life and in her discussions of the Virgin Mary
: Mary, Mother of God, is the ideal set before all Catholic women... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1 (31 March 1906): 389 The Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp is dated 9 November 1905. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published her landmark study of the figure of the Virgin Mary
as a model for women: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research. 194: 279, 284 |
Education | Marina Warner | Life in the convent was quite regimented: we were all marched in line and we all sang songs together and we learned everything by heart. Zabus, Chantal et al. “Spinning a Yarn with Marina Warner”. Kunapipi, Vol. 16 , No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 519-29. 519 |
Education | Marina Warner | Here, she learned the practices of examining her conscience and meditating on holy pictures, which have been significant in her life ever since. Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67. 261 |
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