Nancy Cunard
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Standard Name: Cunard, Nancy
Birth Name: Nancy Cunard
NC
was an early twentieth-century modernist poet, journalist, anthologist, biographer, and political activist whose life and literary career were closely intertwined. She was significant as a publisher as well as in these other roles.
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politics | Valentine Ackland | VA
and Warner were involved in the Spanish Civil War from its outset. They travelled to Barcelona as first-aid volunteers in late September 1936 in response to an article written by Nancy Cunard
in the... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | |
Publishing | Ezra Pound | Nancy Cunard
's Hours Press
in Paris published EP
's A Draft of XXX Cantos. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiii, 7 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Publishing | Violet Trefusis | The novel was reissued in 1996 by Virago
's Modern Classics, with an introduction by Lisa St Auban de Teran
, who devotes much of her introduction to VT
's life experiences and suggests that... |
Reception | Samuel Beckett | SB
's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard
, and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press
. Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995. 59 Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 6 |
Reception | Samuel Beckett | The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard
and Richard Aldington
. Cunard
called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes
. qtd. in Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973. viii |
Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Her frequent correspondents included musician Paul Nordoff
, American artist and illustrator George Plank
, and writers Leonard Bacon
, Anne Parrish
, William Maxwell
, Nancy Cunard
, and Alyse Gregory
. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 244 |
Textual Features | Aldous Huxley | The title comes from Marlowe
: My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay. Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper, 1957. xvix |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | Wheels was a series in opposition: to the First World War, to the cosiness of the Georgian school of poetry, and to the establishment in general. It drew its revolutionary note from the continued influence... |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain
, Edith Sitwell
, Nancy Cunard
, Cicely Hamilton
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
Textual Production | Carol Rumens | Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and... |
Textual Production | Mina Loy | ML
also wrote poems about other writers and artists. Several of these poems, including James Joyce
's Ulysses, The Starry Sky of Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, Brancusi
's Golden Bird, and... |
Textual Production | W. H. Auden | An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender
in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968. 4 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
remained editor of this weekly for the next twenty years. Her efforts were part of her strong commitment to fighting totalitarianism wherever and whenever it appeared. This periodical reached forty thousand readers and was... |
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