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Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Fainlight | These are serious poems which engage unblinkingly with the perplexities of the human condition. The intricate, highly visual title-poem juxtaposes two views of human lives: one of people as distant and tiny, one as close... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Battier | Battier wrote most of this poem in stanzas composed of six iambic pentameters: an unusual metre for her, and one she does not stay in without lapses which may be intentional. Before the last passage... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence, Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 137 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Simone de Beauvoir | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | In print ER
's play was accompanied by a preface written in the voice of a young-Turk satirist. It is a piece that could hardly have appeared at this date under a woman's name, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Fidelia | Fidelia's response is flippant, racy, and Swift
ian in style. Her first joke is to adopt a professional or hard-headed tone, entirely at odds with the invitation to write solemn devotional verse. She complains that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
dedicated this work to Swift's friend Esther Johnson
, or Stella, who later owned a copy. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Real, Hermann J. “Stella’s Books”. Swift Studies, Vol. 11 , pp. 70-83. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Jones | As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Schaw | Schaw's narrative falls into four parts, corresponding to different stages in her travels. In the first she crosses the Atlantic to the Caribbean. The others cover Antigua and St Kitts, North Carolina, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Molly Keane | This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in... |
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