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Occupation | Frances Horovitz | MacBeth was an influential BBC producer responsible for several regular poetry programmes. The Doomsday Show, not published until 1965, established him as a poet in his own right, and he went on to publish... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Literary responses | Gillian Clarke | Critic M. Wynn Thomas
reads the Gothic pastoral Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48 Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48-9 |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | The cover of this volume bears a tribute from Ted Hughes
: She is an extremely fine poet. . . . Her simple, clean language follows the track of the nerves. There is nothing hit... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Plath | In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez
(who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time .... |
Literary responses | Catherine Byron | Critics praised CB
generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore
in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet, “Advertisement: The Getting of Vellum. Poems by Catherine Byron; About the Poet; Sample Poem; Reviews”. Salmon Poetry Online Bookshop. |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Plath | SP
and Ted Hughes
attended a writers' retreat in Yaddo, Saratoga Springs. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann. xiii, 126 |
Friends, Associates | Doris Lessing | At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight
and Alan Sillitoe
, Arnold Wesker
and his wife Diski, Jenny. “Doris and Me”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 1, pp. 21-3. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Friends, Associates | Seamus Heaney | A friendship that helped SH
's poetry was that with Philip Hobsbaum
, who managed a living transplant of the 1960s Group from London to Belfast. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4048 (31 October 1980): 1222 |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | RF
and her husband met Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
in 1961, on the occasion of Hughes's winning the Hawthornden Prize, as Alan Sillitoe had done the previous year. The foursome first met, Fainlight recalled... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes
survived Plath's death. RF
later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill
sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Plath | David
and Assia Wevill
, a Canadian poet and his wife who had rented SP
's and Ted Hughes
's former flat in London, visited them for a weekend in Devon. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann. 156-7 |
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