William Blake

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Standard Name: Blake, William

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Textual Features Ann Batten Cristall
The preface expresses admiration for both Burns and George Dyer . ABC stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake and Henry Kirke White
Intertextuality and Influence Marie Corelli
R. B. Kershner, Jr. (a James Joyce scholar) points out that Joyce read The Sorrows of Satan in 1905 and that the novel has a number of elements that [he] adapts to the form and...
Leisure and Society Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, pp. 1 - 44; various pages.
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Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable.
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Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
MEC 's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake . Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is...
Reception Dora Carrington
Before she began painting, Carrington mused in a letter to Lytton Strachey about what she had seen: Doré , or Blake could hardly have conceived anything more frenzied.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Jane Hill finds in the work...
Literary responses Leonora Carrington
In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...
Leisure and Society A. S. Byatt
ASB later recalled the 1960s as a time of desire to be perpetual children, signified by wearing baby doll dresses and oh-so-innocent daisies as well as by quoting Blake . One of her seminal experiences...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Butts
His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake
Cultural formation Mary Butts
MB 's family owned a total of thirty-four Blake watercolours, portraits, and sketches, and several of his engravings, which were housed at Salterns. These were a source of poetic inspiration for MB ; she felt...
Textual Production Mary Butts
This account of her life from childhood to the age of twenty takes its title from a poem by William Blake . The poem's speaker is caught by a Maiden while dancing in the wild...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Butts
Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...
Leisure and Society Mary Brunton
As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...
Literary responses Emily Brontë
Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...
Literary responses Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker.
White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10.
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