Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes
, a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | |
Textual Features | Maria Riddell | MR
's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill
(the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
(St... |
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... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | The Morning Post published MR
's London's Summer Morning, a word-painting of city life in the tradition of Swift
's Description poems. Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 9-22. 14-15 |
Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Pennington | An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere... |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | It is a poem highly characteristic of her manner: a moral tale featuring a personified quality, humorous, ironic, and written in octosyllabic couplets reminiscent of Swift
or Prior
. Prudence and Oeconomy are the daughters... |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
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 | 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 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry Nevinson
, however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift
's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler
's Erewhon. Harold Laski
, too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 122, 126 |
Travel | Frances Sheridan | They also loved to spend time at the estate of Quilca in Co. Cavan, a family property immortalised in poems by Jonathan Swift
, who had stayed there a generation previously with FS
's father-in-law. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 15-16 |
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