Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4.
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Textual Features | Helen Waddell | HW
's preface reflects her wide reading, addresses the various traditions—from pagan to Virgil
ian—that went into the lyrics she translates, and makes it clear that she envisages her anthology as a companion to The... |
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 |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount
) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva
, as |
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... |
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 | Mary Carleton | According to critic Mihoko Suzuki
, The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One... |
Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | Constantia Crawley (later CG
) published the first of her small, Elsevir-format editions of classical authors (written in Latin throughout): the works of Virgil
, as P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Nunc emendatiora. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , pp. 33-56. 42n20 |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | She chose an epigraph from Virgil
's Georgics, Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago. 90 Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 35 |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, wrote a poem in praise of Dryden
's translation of Virgil
, which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with... |
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. |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | Dame Felicitas Corrigan
edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW
in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil
to Milton. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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