Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | A number of poems here are grouped in series, the centrepiece being The Furies (which, she said, was the reason that she decided not to wait but to publish the collection in her lifetime). Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 361 |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | The emphasis placed on ML
by Roger Lonsdale
in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers. Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003. |
Textual Features | Robert Southey | Against the trend of the times, RS
aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste... |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | The Rattle Bag, arranged not by date, or theme, or even alphabetically by author, but alphabetically by title, aims at and achieves a happy and fertile randomness, gathering chips of brilliance from all times... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | It presents a report on the state of the world, or at least the nation, by the goddess Astrea or Justice, who in classical myth fled to heaven at the end of the Golden Age... |
Textual Production | Ruth Pitter | In 1936 RP
and Michael Head
had published The Matron Cat's Song, for which she wrote the lyric and he the music. (In 1972 Beryl Price
published musical settings for A Cycle of Cats... |
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