MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five...
Literary responses
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In 1951, however, the poet Louise Bogan
set out to recuperate her as the founder of a whole feminine school of rather daring verse on the subject of feminine and masculine emotions.
qtd. in
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press, 1977.
Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts
and others have noted Sigourney's high reputation in her own day (the female Milton, the American Hemans, the sweet singer of Hartford, generally ranked higher than William Cullen Bryant
Literary responses
Viola Meynell
The Tablet demanded, Is Miss Viola Meynell a Catholic? We find nothing in A Girl Adoring, save the title's reminiscence of a sacred picture, to assure us that she is.
qtd. in
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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More recently, Louise Bogan
Literary responses
Viola Meynell
Louise Bogan
wrote that VM
here gauges her work . . . carefully. The situation is often presented below its own level. Yet the result of this understatement is the spectacle of a grief too...
Literary responses
Edna St Vincent Millay
The tour on which ESVM
gave readings from this book was a huge success. Reviews, however, were more mixed than formerly. Horace Gregory
harked back to a memory of Millay as a mere girl, casually...
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
An exhibition of photos, papers, and other items from the Rising were later put on display at the National Museum
. American author Louise Bogan
saw the exhibition in 1937 and wrote to a friend...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Marianne Moore
Her subjects included writers like Louise Bogan
and Ezra Pound
, and artists like Anna Pavlova
.