William Shakespeare

PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

Here CS attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare . She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean...

It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka

In this work, CSplaces Shakespeare in his Warwickshire context . . . by presenting brief sketches of neighbors and relations whose lives touched his own. The subjects CS chooses are not generally known...

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ 's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...

They travelled via Stratford upon Avon, where they were gratified by the historical memory of Shakespeare , and then Ludlow, Montgomery, Dolgellau, and Caernarfon, to the seaside town of Barmouth...

Railway stations and refreshment rooms were now added to the list of amenities subject to critical comment. Clipped yew hedges near Nettlecombe in North Somerset were regarded as a relic of the past. They noted...

Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA 's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people...

She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire 's paper against Shakespeare (whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable...

She often visited Stratford-on-Avon to meet friends and to see Shakespeare plays; she noted that these trips restored and revitalised her.

MB visited Stratford upon Avon, whose associations with Shakespeareproved a perfect source of inspiration to her.

A truck came to pick her up in the morning, giving her time to pack only a few warm clothes and books. She mistakenly packed two Bibles, and two collected Shakespeare s (which were...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...