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Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Cowper Madan | The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil
, opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene? Concanen, Matthew, editor. The Flower-Piece. Walthoe. 130 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Dryden
's Virgil
translation supplies an epigraph for the title-page. An authorial Advertisement, apologetic in tone, says the book will be realistic, moral, and well-intentioned. Louisa Jenkins writes the first letter while staying with her... |
Publishing | Penelope Lively | PL
's more recent work for children includes almost every imaginable kind of fiction. Some of her titles are futuristic, like Judy and the Martian, 1992, and A Martian Comes to Stay, 1995.... |
Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Textual Production | Sarah Lewis | SL
began her writing career with contributions to The Family Magazine. Her first publication was said to be a poem which appeared around 1838, when she was just fourteen years old. Mainiero, Lina, editor. American Women Writers. Vol. II, Unger. 2: 572 Walsh, Thomas. “Stella and Her Brooklyn Salon”. The Bookman, Vol. 56 , No. 5, pp. 578-83. 580 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
, Virgil
, and Sir Roger L'Estrange
. A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the... |
Textual Production | Ursula K. Le Guin | UKLG
published Lavinia, a novel about the Italian princess of that name mentioned in Virgil
's Aeneid, who marries the noble exiled Trojan Aeneas and so becomes the mother of Rome. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House. 105-6 |
Education | Ursula K. Le Guin | UKLG
learned Latin in her seventies in order to write a novel with connections to the Aeneid by Virgil
. Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House. 104-5 |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil
(in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In her preface JK
explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Irwin | AI
praises both her father
and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh
. Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil
ian epic. Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4. 24 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | Further disconnected tales accumulate, one contrasting two priests, Father Coeurdroit (or Goodheart), who serves the poor rather than the Church, and Father Predatore, whose name is self-explanatory. The flow is finally interrupted by Proteus placing... |
Textual Production | Seamus Heaney | The poems in SH
's collection Seeing Things resound with echoes of Virgil
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4601 (7 June 1991): 28 “Seamus Heaney — Biographical”. Nobelprize.org. |
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