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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 | 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 | 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 | Edith Sitwell | Charles Henri Ford
dedicated to ES
his study The Mirror of Baudelaire. Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985. 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 | 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 | Ada Leverson | In this spoof erotic Baudelairean
fantasy, a Poet interviews the Egyptian Sphinx. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 69 |
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, 1930, pp. 19-49. 16 |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale
in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW
's different pseudonyms. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
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 |
Occupation | Edgar Allan Poe | EAP
laboured for years as a journalist and editor. Although he had many publications prior to the 1845 publication of The Raven and Other Poems, it was this work that firmly established his popular... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
... |
Author summary | Oscar Wilde | OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | The book appeared with the original French on opposite pages from the translations. The second edition appeared the same year, with the title modified to Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles Baudelaire... |
Textual Features | Toru Dutt |
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