Adrienne Rich

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Standard Name: Rich, Adrienne
Birth Name: Adrienne Cecile Rich
Married Name: Adrienne Cecile Conrad
AR ranks as one of the most influential figures in the twentieth-century feminist movement, and as one of the most influential contemporary American poets (though her political activism impeded the usual workings of the canonisation process, producing a counter-flow against the voices raised in praise of her work). Like other great poets she has produced a body of theorising and critical prose that goes hand-in-hand with her poetry, and that has been almost equally clarifying and liberating for women seeking to understand the dynamics of history.
Black and white head-shot of Adrienne Rich. She has jaw-length hair with short bangs, and she wears a collared shirt.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Mona Caird
Where literary historian John Sutherland has called MCone of the most aggressive of the New Woman novelists,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ann Heilmann (who has led the scholarly rediscovery of the story of Caird's life) has argued that...
Reception Charlotte Brontë
Most major shifts in second-wave feminist literary criticism have been marked by influential rereadings of Jane Eyre: Ellen Moers (1976) and Elaine Showalter (1977) in the assertion of a female literary tradition; the Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective
Literary responses Eavan Boland
The reception of this volume sealed EB 's reputation; but reviewers continued to define her by comparison with other, better-known poets like Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney .
Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton.
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This was the third of her...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Blackwood
Blackwood felt appropriated; Elizabeth Hardwick too was outraged to find that Lowell had drawn heavily on words by her. Elizabeth Bishop thought the poetry magnificent but reproved Lowell for the potentially infinite harm he did...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Atwood
These fifty selected essays and reviews include discussions of Adrienne Rich , Northrop Frye and Anne Sexton .
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Textual Features Fleur Adcock
Adcock's introduction declines to illustrate a thesis or put forward a particular tradition: women poets, she says, have participated in all the complex poetic currents of the twentieth century. What they have in common is...

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Texts

Rich, Adrienne. The School Among the Ruins. Norton, 2004.
Rich, Adrienne. The Will to Change. Norton, 1971.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Rich, Adrienne. Time’s Power. Norton, 1989.
Rich, Adrienne. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems, 2007-2010. Norton, 2011.
Rich, Adrienne. Twenty-One Love Poems. Effie’s Press, 1977.
Rich, Adrienne. What is Found There. Norton, 1993.
Rich, Adrienne. Your Native Land, Your Life. Norton, 1986.