Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
appeared with Charles Causley
, John Fuller
, Vernon Scannell
, and John Walsh
in 1985 in a poetry collection for children from Puffin
entitled Poets in Hand. |
Dedications | Frances Bellerby | FB
dedicated to Charles Causley
a book of poems which she published at Plymouth, The Stone Angel and the Stone Man. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986. 31 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Literary responses | Frances Bellerby | FB
's award of a Civil List pension (1973) was a recognition of her literary achievement. Charles Causley
's obituary called her a true original possessed of a unique and distinguished voice. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | U. A. Fanthorpe | Charles Causley
called this volume the most accomplished first book of poems he had met with recently, a new and original voice . . . clear, distinctive, and remarkably assured. qtd. in Fanthorpe, U. A. Selected Poems. Peterloo Poets, 1986. prelims |
Literary responses | Rosemary Sutcliff | Charles Causley
, reviewing this children's fiction for The Times, found in this book many virtues of the traditional ballad: the language spare and economical, the action moving swiftly from scene to scene, a... |
Reception | Frances Bellerby | During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region
programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley
. John Lehmann
read one of FB
's poems on the Third Programme... |
Textual Production | U. A. Fanthorpe | She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez
in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her... |
Textual Production | Frances Bellerby | By 11 January 1959 she had sent two much-revised chapters to Charles Causley
; Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986. 34 qtd. in Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986. 35 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert
, Charles Causley
, Philip Larkin
, J. M. W. Turner
, Caravaggio
, Chardin
, Goya
, Hume
, and Descartes
. A sequence... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986. 39 |
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