On 2 August 1987 CB
began her journey to St Patrick's Purgatory, retracing the steps Heaney took as he wrote his Station Island sequence (which appeared in a volume of his poems by the same...
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Lady Lucy Herbert
Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us.
Herbert, Lady Lucy. Several Methods and Practises of Devotion. The Widow of Jonh [sic] de Cock, 1743.
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After several...
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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, 1894.
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The...
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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,...
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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...
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
She dedicated to British Ladies interested in the bible these scholarly essays or notes. In a spirit of cultural enquiry she explains the use of camels as transport. In Jephthah's Daughter she argues confidently for...