Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books.
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Isobel Armstrong
Standard Name: Armstrong, Isobel
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Carol Rumens | From this collection onwards Rumens's work consistently reached outside Britain to the experience of other countries. Scholar Isobel Armstrong
has called her a European poet. |
| Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | Later critical readings of Dionysius the Areopagite are rare. In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong
describes the title poem's ostensible story of Christian conversion as featuring a vision of an egalitarian... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her mother (born Emily Tilsley) was the daughter of a wealthy Montgomeryshire banker. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 161 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Most sources agree on her mother's family name as Tilsley. However, Armstrong
and Bristow
cite it as Tyldesley from the ancient... |
| Cultural formation | Ann Hawkshaw | As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH
was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural... |
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