Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, pp. 19-49.
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Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Robert Ross
closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda. Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, pp. 19-49. 16 |
Literary responses | Graham Greene | George Orwell
, once a colonial policeman himself, criticized the book harshly for its fascination with damnation and suicide. As he put it, Greene harboured the idea, which has been floating around ever since Baudelaire |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgette Heyer | The novel follows the paradigm of the Cinderella story, or rather that of King Cophetua and the beggar maid, where the lover's power, instead of the power of magic, raises up the abject heroine. Reworking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | Charles Henri Ford
dedicated to ES
his study The Mirror of Baudelaire. Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press. 250 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | VL
's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby
finds... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | In this spoof erotic Baudelairean
fantasy, a Poet interviews the Egyptian Sphinx. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne. 69 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | Some aspects of this fiction suggest an allegory on ES
's relation with Tchelitchew. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 209 Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press. 248-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle
and Baudelaire
, though... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | The protagonist is of this light-heartedly surrealist and paradoxically serious tale is Samuel Cramer, the main character of a Charles Baudelaire
story,, now unnaturalistically aged and running a rooming-house in Africa. He has written a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Crowe | This book received mixed reviews. The Athenæum referred to the volumes as awful (presumably meaning that they inspired awe) and noted that the narrative part of [them] is very well done. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1056 (1848): 79 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Plath | This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James
, Scott Fitzgerald
, and Charles Baudelaire
, expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed. Plath, Sylvia. “Ennui”. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol. 5 , No. 2. |
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