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's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Jennings
She tells Wedgwood: These poems are for you who encouraged and helped me. / I hope they are good; I wish they were better.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Lucidities. Macmillan, 1970.
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The volume constitutes a backward look by a writer who...
Textual Features
Frances Cornford
The book contains poems by, among others, Baudelaire
, Rimbaud
, and Verlaine
. Cornford's translations appear on the facing pages.
Fifteen Poems, from the French. Translator Cornford, Frances, Tragara Press, 1976.
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then turned her attention to biography, in connection with her deep and informed interest in modern French writing. She found, however, that her first choice of subject, the French poet Rimbaud
, was too...
Textual Production
Edith Sitwell
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provided an introduction to Helen Rootham
's translation of a selection of Rimbaud
's Illuminations.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.